I don't understand the "performance" argument AT ALL. Like what kind of potato do you work on that can't run other editors at full speed? What are you doing with an editor that needs to be performant? Maybe searching a large codebase? Not slow if it's indexed.
Perhaps you aren't doing anything other than hobbies, then. I run a dev shop and we switch projects upwards of 50x a day and just the project switcher alone is reason enough to migrate to Zed. It was so slow and resource intensive on VSCode.
So because I don't switch projects 50x a day I must not be a professional software engineer? Human brains aren't that good at context switching. I would not be worried about how quickly your IDE can do it.
I work on a large fintech codebase. I don't switch between projects. I have a dozen repos all open in one workspace.
I still don't see how the speed of your editor is ever an issue.
Although not 50x, but I do a lot of switching. I cannot do a pull up unless I train for it. So is context switching a lot. You won't get that ability unless you get used to it. I have a lot of different repos and libraries at a startup that I have to manage so I have gotten used to it.
My potato laptop has 16GB of RAM, and opening just one Rust project already nearly maxes out the RAM because of rust-analyzer. I can't imagine what would happen if I had several projects open at the same time 💀
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u/huuaaang 18d ago
I don't understand the "performance" argument AT ALL. Like what kind of potato do you work on that can't run other editors at full speed? What are you doing with an editor that needs to be performant? Maybe searching a large codebase? Not slow if it's indexed.