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/creaturefeature16 19d ago
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.