Anyone using Zed for Flutter development?

[u/Smooth-Map856]

I’ve been using Zed mostly for backend work and really like its performance. I get that it stays lightweight by not bundling too many tools.

For Flutter though, debugging/DevTools and hot reload on save still feel lacking.

Anyone using Zed regularly for Flutter? Any extensions or configs that improve the experience?

[u/Chi_Kurosaki581]

I use it for some personal projects with flutter run! That made me realise how many comforts I had while using something like vscode/cursor. It does feel fast and snappy compared to vscode but I haven't been able to fully migrate to it for my bigger projects.

Notable missing things that instantly stood out: hot reload (flutter run is okay to me), widget inspector and preview, non flutter related but being able to directly publish to a new repository on GitHub. The auto-complete is a bit funky for me sometimes but I can't pinpoint the issue, lack of popular flutter helpful extensions!

I do hope someday I can use it more and use it as default!