[KingOfCoders]

Switched from Intellij (various) to Cursor because of AI integration, only using Claude Code CLI, switched to VS because Cursor became so annoying every release, pushing their agents down my throat, activating what I did deactivate every release, recently thought "Why do I even use that slow bloated thing of VS?" and switched to Zed. Very happy camper. So much faster. So much snappier. Would love Claude Code CLI integration but can live without it. Would pay for Zed as I did pay ~25y for Intellij.

[ffreire]

Are you familiar with ACP[0]? Through that protocol you can run claude code within zed[1]. Or perhaps I'm not understanding what you mean by using CC integration.

[0]: https://agentcommunicationprotocol.dev/introduction/welcome [1]: https://zed.dev/docs/ai/external-agents#claude-code

[KingOfCoders]

ACP is so much worse than Claude Code CLI - the quality is not there. Everyone assumes the JSON-CLI-API is the same as the CLI but it is not. Tool usage is different, and I assume agent system prompts are different and agents are different.

Integration like in Cursors, I use the CLI and Claude Code knows what files are open, uses Cursor for diffs etc.

[clickety_clack]

Yep. Zed is the best. It’s in an optimum spot for me. It’s super snappy and has good implementation of vim keybindings for manual coding, and it has appropriate AI integration that does all the AI stuff I want without being in my face about how AI it all is.

[marrone12]

Same, except for me Zed is one of the only editors that has emacs keybindings!

[staticassertion]

Yeah, I find Zed to be strictly the best experience for "I actually want a pleasant editor" experience. Using it reminds me of when I finally switched from nano to sublime as a freshman.