Monday, November 24, 2025

Zed So Far

I've used Zed for around a month now as my sole text editor and I'm enjoying it.

I like its speed and simplicity. The team is actively rolling out updates and it's super simple to just setup and start coding.

There's two things I currently miss from VSCode (one of which I think is getting fixed soon):

  • Pretty TypeScript Errors is one of the best extensions in the VSCode marketplace, I think this kind of TypeScript error view will soon be natively supported in Zed and it seems like it'll be in the next stable release
  • Jest Runner is such a convenient way to run tests, I hate having to memorise the command line args for jest and prefer to have my tests run directly in my editor so I don't need to switch windows