[bdhtu]

Compared to Sublime Text:

RAM:

213 MB Zed

41 MB ST

Storage:

406 MB Zed

52 MB ST

Startup time:

Zed is slower than ST (but only by a few milliseconds).

Also when you reopen ST it will remember how you've resized the window from last time whereas Zed won't.

[andrewl-hn]

Probably it helps that Sublime doesn't come with an AI agentic features, LSP, and a whole video-conferncing and screen-sharing client by default.

[CaptainOfCoit]

> and a whole video-conferncing and screen-sharing client by default

Haha wait what? Are you confusing Zed (the text editor) with something else? Surely it doesn't ship with video conferencing???

[markus_zhang]

ST is a text editor while Zed is an IDE. I wish there were something like VSCode that is very modular but written in native. But VSCode is good enough and it is my daily driver.

[pjmlp]

For those on Windows, which is the topic at hand, UltraEdit and Notepad++.

I disagree Zed is an IDE, it is quite far from InteliJ, Borland/Embarcadero, VS, XCode, Eclipse, Netbeans...

If it is about adding enough plugins until it eventually becomes one, then any programmer's editor is an IDE.

[niutech]

There are always: Vim and Emacs.

[doodpants]

> ST is a text editor while Zed is an IDE.

Zed is the new emacs?

[wseqyrku]

No, that doesn't matter. I think you should be looking for how quickly it can get you a working environment for your favorite language not how long it takes to boot up once per reboot. If you want features the bits have to live somewhere. Look at it like a trade off, if you're just going to look at it, by all means, take a memory dump. But I find that a little bit hard to work with.

For me, as long as it's better than alternatives it's good enough. Especially if it's not running JS.

[niutech]

RAM does matter, especially when you have web browser with multiple tabs opened at the same time. Sublime Text or Notepad++ are powerful, yet much more lightweight than Zed. Not to mention Vim/Emacs.