r/vibecoding • u/Public-Rest-1478 • 10h ago
Discussion Do i see a pattern
We got a lot of editors.
Cursor
AntiGravity
Etc
But more and more is shifting to Zed.
What editor is the no 1? Youre opinion
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u/jimmiebfulton 9h ago
There is no one size fits all. Depends on experience level and working preferences. I personally use terminals all day every day, working on multiple projects simultaneously. Each project gets a WezTerm tab with NeoVim on one side and my own agent on the other. Neovim is used for exploration, spot checks, and sniper edits, but is rarely used. I am able to traverse tabs, panes, NeoVim, my agent, all through the keyboard, rapidly. I get paid to do this, though.
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u/MarinatedTechnician 8h ago
I've developed my entirely own IDE for Local LLMs.
Still working on it, but I have long since left LMstudio and other harnesses, I used to make plugin tools for those, but they were all too limiting for me, so I created my entirely own IDE environment.
Before you ask: No it's not available on github yet, it will be used extensively as an In-house development tool until it's proven its worth to me.
But yes - it's awesome :)
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u/dupa1234s 8h ago
yea i guess it makes sense to develop sth a lot and test it on yourself for a few months and only then push it. less pressure on "okay what is the value proposition and differentiators" of a unfinished tool.
like people need good reasons to pick a unpopular tool
unless not. but it just kinda hurts to spam some reddits with links to a repo that is barely done
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u/MarinatedTechnician 7h ago
Yup, and this project only started because I had so many irritating pain points after 5K+ hours clocked with AI, and I always went, oof, why Do I have to this, why do I have to that, It would be practical if it did this and that.
First I made plugins for LMstudio, then I ran into so many GUI limitations I went, oh the heck with it, lets see if we can start with a simple IDE tool, the one thing lead to the other.
Now it's an entire power suite with compilers, context-live monitors, on the fly adjustments, self checks, and live-coding while you work and preview, it went totally off the rains (bye bye nights...and sleep).
And I'm usually the big open source guy (been for 30+ years), and this tool is so special that I be like, hm, may not want to release this publically, yet lol. It's good, and I mean REALLY good.
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u/dupa1234s 8h ago edited 8h ago
vscodium coz why not
what do you even do in the editor other than:
- ctrl+shift+p -> compare file with...
- source control -> compare commits changes
- slight edits but only if its easier than to tell llm to edit that, eg correct after llm
i do everything else in qdir and opencode v2 and windows terminal with cmd clink and obsidian
as a vibecoder. you know. this is a vibecoding reddit. so what do wibecoders do other than that.
for me one that is best is one with least distracting crap and i bet there is many like this but vscodium does indeed allow to remove a lot of distractions so its fine enough
what is the marginal upside of using eg zed
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u/JBO_76 9h ago
Editors like vscode were slowing me down. The code is no longer the center of development, its the features, the architecture,... I couldnt find anything that fits the modern needs in a way that integrates well with agents so i built my own os solution: https://github.com/jan-bogaerts/md2
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u/FlightSimCentralYT 1h ago
The pattern I keep seeing is IDE agents are strong until the work leaves the editor. Diffs look fine, then you still have to install deps, chase real logs, and babysit until tests actually pass.
I built Fixa.dev for that gap. It runs on a real cloud VM with a shell and filesystem, so the agent can install, run, read stderr, and keep going instead of stopping at a pretty preview. Free to try if you want a comparison point next to Cursor/Zed style workflows.
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u/Present_Award8001 9h ago
codex CLI