Zed (https://zed.dev/agentic) also released agentic code edits (similar to Cursor) which I tried and really like.

Its agent is a lot worse than Cursor's in my experience so far. Even tab edits feel worse.

My understanding is that these are not custom models but a combination of prompting and steering. That makes Cursor's performance relative to others pretty surprising to me. Are they just making more requests? I wonder what the secret sauce is.

And it's not yet another editor running in a web browser which is really, really nice.

Clearly. Zed wouldn't have blurry text rendering on some resolutions if they did.

Issue has been open for over a year.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992

I just wish it had a fallback if Vulcan wasn’t installed… I would love to run Zed inside a docker container so that naughty plugins don’t misbehave

Doesn't it need to download a massive nodejs binary to be useful?

For what?

I dunno, you tell me? https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589

Right. “To be useful” includes leveraging language servers, which they aren’t going to write from scratch. So what’s your point?

Just for syntax highlighting no. But for any ide like features it need language servers and some of them are node based.

https://zed.dev/docs/languages

Its fast. Love it !

I was again 5 years old for a few minutes after clicking on this. Thanks OP. That brought back a lot of good memories.

Yeah exactly. In all years of my experience I have seen different implementation of this which is hard to maintain. I hope this can help developers to keep their focus on the actual problems that they are solving.

Thanks. Please share your experience if you ended up using it. I will be more than happy to address any issues you might face or any concerns and suggestions you have.