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by beginnings 664 days ago
I started using Zed in the last month and I had a feeling it would end up taking a lot of Neovim users. Neovim gets a lot of users who need better performance than VSCode, like me, but the config is such a pain and there was a gap in the market for a blazingly fast GUI editor which Zed looks like filling.

Supermaven still has some issues on Zed, but apart from that its been rock solid and ive fully switched from Neovim.

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If you ever go back to Neovim, I’ve had a lot of fun with NVChad. I still had to configure a little bit for LSP but that’s part of the ethos - sane defaults and most stuff off by default for performance and to reduce clutter.
I have my Neovim setup the way I like it, the problem is every so often something breaks, and I have to dig back into the config and ive completely forgot how everything works. Theres just a complexity with neovim config that id rather not deal with, its a bad DX in this day and age.
I would love a modern Emacs with a better modern GUI similar to Zeds.