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Zed also hastily went to v1. Simple things are missing such as labels to identify where a conpletion It's coming from when there are multiple completions with the same name. Also typescript types which are updated by an external process do not reflect unlike vscode.

They are now trying to do collaboration with ai to return money to investors but again nobody wants this.

That's why most editing tools should be open source and done by people passionate about it. The only company that managed to do paid editoes well is Jetbrains because their IDEs are actually much much better than the competition and much better than Zed.




Isn’t Zed open source now?




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