[eklavya]

I wanted to check the hype, so I installed Zed and opened a go project.

Ram usage:

VS Code 580 MB

Zed 410 MB

I don't see a reason yet to switch away from VS Code, more feature complete and I don't care about scroll speed, it's good enough in vs code.

[roflcopter69]

How much of the RAM usage is by gopls (The Go LSP)?

[tracker1]

Kind of there with you... was pretty surprised how big the surface was with Zed, and it definitely doesn't do all the things I do in Code currently.

[nicoburns]

Try Sublime Text if you want lower RAM usage. My instance is currently sitting at ~120mb with 3 separate projects open (that does not include usage by Rust Analyzer which runs in a separate process (and tends to use GBs of RAM), but I suspect your numbers don't either)

[throwa356262]

Last time I used zed for go development it spawned nodejs servers (downloaded without asking for permission!) for god knows what.

I dont understand the zed hype, not only the UI has tons of issues, memory usage is not that different

[drannex]

> Last time I used zed for go development it spawned nodejs servers (downloaded without asking for permission!) for god knows what.

LSPs, they are snagging the LSPs made by other developers for languages you are using. if you install any LSP or language support in VSCode its running the same thing. It only installs when you are using a language that has default support such as Rust, Python (which I believe uses a Node.js LSP), Go (same as Python), etc.

[throwa356262]

So basically there is no getting away from javascript runtime. So why should I use zed instead of vscode then?

[drannex]

Latency, FPS, efficiency. The LSPs while beefy, are not part of the overall efficiency and are used as sub processes, so if they fail or are sluggish, they won't affect how the editor runs, if you don't want to use LSPs, then you can go ahead and disable those.

Zed is one of the few editors, that like Sublime, are really focused on efficiency, using minimal resources (when needed) and the latency and FPS of the editor is bounds better than VS Code. It just works, better.

[r4nd0m4ch]

what about CPU usage? Overall I agree, it doesn't have enough plugins and is not well supported yet.

[grougnax]

Currently Zed uses more CPU than VSCode on my Windows and macOS laptops.