[Aeolun]

It is certainly true that the language servers have the same speed in Zed, but there is something to be said for just never suffering from any UI delay for any reason.

Though I'll admit a LS that takes three seconds to respond is kinda indistinguishable from UI delay.

[cybrox]

What kind of codebases do you work with? Other than with multi-MB files or thousands of multi-cursors, I've never had any performance issues with VS-Code. It's actually one of the fastest Electron apps, I would say. If I notice a delay, it's usually the language server or some support package's background command taking a bit of time.

[drcongo]

If all you know is VS Code it probably feels fine and you should definitely not try Zed - "one of the fastest Electron apps" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement.

[cybrox]

I have used both unbearably slow IDEs like Visual Studio, Android Studio, Atmel Studio and very fast and lightweight editors like Notepad++ and Sublime Text.

I don't have any issue with the speed of VS-Code on my machine and it feels the same as Sublime Text used to.

[hu3]

Sublime is faster still. If speed is your main concern.

[stavros]

How old is your computer? Some people have longer upgrade cycles than others.

[cybrox]

Granted, all of my machines are pretty new and powerful.

Maybe performance is a lot worse on >5yo machines.

[speedgoose]

I remember that my computer in 2016 was already fast enough.