alt Hacker News> while JetBrains products are full-blown IDEs, with abilities Zed will never offer.
None of those matter if they just close the IDE before it indexes.
> When all of these tiny issues come together, it makes me NOT want to program. I don’t want to sit around and wait for startup times to get my ideas onto the screen. I don’t want to worry that my CPU or RAM is going to be exhausted and I am going to have to restart my machine. I want to open my editor and immediately enter a flow state. I want the tooling to assist me when useful, and stay out of my way when not.
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Exhausting the CPU and memory? I'm genuinely curious how he gets such a different experience to me.
Startup is definitely slower than vim though, but it's something that happens only once for me, then it stays open all day (unlike vim which I close and open repeatedly)
Yes I have read that, and whatever, some people rather walk straight away, because waiting for the car to warm up takes a few minutes.
I have IDE tooling experience since Borland products for MS-DOS, and plenty of programming editors as well, between PC, Amiga, Mac and UNIX clones.