[arjie]

Oh that’s a great test case. I’ve been annoyed by the speed issue too. For a while I had json and Md files bound to Zed because it was faster with highlighting than anything else.

But even that takes seconds to start on my M1 Max from cold. So then I just wrote (avec Claude) a viewer app and it turns out computers are so fast you can not only open multi GB JSON files instantly you can even pretty print them so fast the user won’t lose attention.

But I just generated those. Moby Dick is a great real-world test case.

[zipy124]

This is why you use Emacs in Daemon mode for instant starts. Does zed perhaps offer something similar?

[arjie]

One can keep it open without a window on MacOS I think but in the end the vibe-coded solution outperforms it on this specific task (which is not its primary task) at a few orders of magnitude. It is perhaps on the frontier for speed-features but I don’t need the features so when I move backwards along the curve I can extract more speed myself.