[typpilol]

Is that really necessary for an ide? Seems like a ton of added complexity for little to no trade off or even a downside considering...

[trenchpilgrim]

Yes. Zed is snappy in a way that makes my copy of Sublime Text 3 feel slow. Compared to VSC it feels like going from a video game at 40 FPS with 2-3 frames of input lag to 120 FPS.

[bschwindHN]

You can read about it here:

https://zed.dev/blog/videogame