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Zed new terms required to be 18 years old

https://zed.dev/terms
33•keyle•1h ago

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koolala•41m ago
Next they just need to 'verify' that which will make the requirement suck.
bigyabai•38m ago
Sigh, for the umpteenth time this week:

  Zed’s AI-enabled software-as-a-service offering (the “Service”)

  Customer must be at least 18 years old to use the Service.
keyle•35m ago
Quoting directly from their terms change email

    You must be 18 or older to use Zed
senectus1•28m ago
yes but a calcification was issued, shortly after it started the blow up over 24 hours ago.
detaro•25m ago
where?
hagbard_c•7m ago
a calcification was issued...

Now here's an area where one of those newfangled large language models actually could do some good: create a spelling checker which doesn't gleefully replace somewhat misspelled or 'mis-swiped' words with correctly spelled but contextually clearly nonsensical ones.

postepowanieadm•38m ago
Make it 21. Better safe than sorry.
throwa356262•36m ago
Lets make it 35. We can not trust people who have not raised a kid themselves.
Hamuko•34m ago
Shit, what age am I gonna have that government-issued kid given to raise?
throwa356262•38m ago
Are people really happy with zed or is this the vocal minority we see on HN?

I have tried zed multiple times and always uninstalled it after a few days because of the ugly font rendering, slow response time (!), high memory usage (!!) and being very buggy in general. And don't even get me started on their AI-first shenanigans.

This is on Linux, maybe it works better on other platforms.

keyle•36m ago
It used to be the best. Straight to the point, simple, great settings.
Hamuko•35m ago
I find it okay on macOS. Font rendering isn't the best but palatable.
ramon156•34m ago
I'm very happy with zed if I have to compare it to any intellij product

If you're using Windows (+ WSL) then yes, there's a hunch of memory issues currently. Apart from Windows I've never issues though, especially seeing as how intellij indexing takes >1 min and hogs my memory during that period.

The only reason I'm not switching is because Zed's vim bindings are aaalmost perfect. I did not like Vim Mode in VSC or intellij IDE's since it's another keymap I have to learn next to my nvim setup

throwa356262•28m ago
No, I had issues on native Linux. At one point it used 4x available memory and brought down the entire system.

Maybe this is a vim thing? What do emacs and vscode users feel about zed?

feverzsj•34m ago
Because it's the only good free IDE for rust.
himata4113•26m ago
neovim works just as good... as long as you ask AI to set it up for you.
criticalfault•33m ago
if you would say you are writing about zed, I'd think you were writing about vscode.

I can't believe the latency of browser based editor is acceptable to people

criticalfault•31m ago
*wouldn't have said
serial_dev•31m ago
Same experience, I heard about them in some podcasts, it all sounded good, performance, from the ground up, rust, collaboration, whatever.

Tried it, it was the worse experience I had with an editor since I started my career… then I tried it again because maybe they figured it out… it’s still bad.

dutchCourage•31m ago
I've been trying it out on MacOS for the past couple of weeks and I'm happy with it. I have a fairly vanilla use of my code editors and I find Zed snappier than VSCode. I have not experienced the issues you describe.
bestest•29m ago
Same. MacOS. Tried it. Was okay-ish for several days. But eventually I realised it's worse than WebStorm in basically every aspect, subjectively speaking.

It is slow, it's missing features and it is buggy.

KingOfCoders•26m ago
I initially loved Zed because it was so much snappier than VSCode/Cursor, but running several Zed instances made my Ryzen/32gb machine unusable together with Claude because Zed seems such a memory hog. Not using it currently anymore. (Win11)
thoughtfulchris•23m ago
Personally I love it. It just feels fast and minimal. I'm on Mac.
tecoholic•19m ago
I have done the same multiple times. But for the last 3 months or so. I haven’t touched anything else (well nvim for quick code browsing, but not as editor). I think that might be around the time they fixed the font rendering on Linux.

It’s good. Launches from anywhere from cli with just ‘zed .’ (No logs and artifacts that hold up the terminal). Multiple instances without worry (unlike PyCharm I used before).

It’s good to the point I keep checking to see if there is a “pro” plan, but there isn’t. They just have AI subscriptions.

tuzemec•15m ago
Went to Zed from Sublime and never looked back (I'm on Mac). Never touched VSCode apart of small tests to see that the project setting (format on save, etc) will work for my colleagues. Can't stand it.

I have opened at all times at least 3-4 medium sized front-end projects and at least one large python project and never had memory issues.

pyr0hu•9m ago
the only time it's using high memory usage if the project runs like 3-4 LSP's. then it's pretty slow, yes.
roughly•9m ago
I’m on a mac - I’ve been poking at zed a bit and it’s… fine? I was a die hard Textmate user, but that’s not just dead but decayed at this point, and I’ve yet to find anything as good.
bigstrat2003•7m ago
I tried Zed. It's alright. Unfortunately the devs think it's ok to download and run extra software without asking me (specifically node.js but it would be bad no matter what the software was). I am not willing to use software where the developers have such a cavalier approach to the user's PC, so I went back to Sublime.
steve_adams_86•4m ago
I've been using it daily for about a year now. I love it. Using most other IDEs feels like a major regression. Multi-buffers are beautifully implemented. I typically use Claude Code if I use an LLM, but their Claude integration is excellent.

Debugging is good. I'd love to see integrated test runners.

I also wish the collaboration was more relevant and fleshed out, but no one I know uses it anyway.

serial_dev•34m ago
I am not sure I have the same definition of “love my editor again” (from their landing page) as the Zed team… my definition is PG. I don’t see a reason that I need to be 18 to use a code editor.
charcircuit•33m ago
Why aren't they willing to break the law while they are still a small company?
mastermage•30m ago
That seems odd
feverzsj•21m ago
So, it's the First 18+ Code Editor.
notenlish•18m ago
I don't get the reasoning behind this.
kalterdev•18m ago
/bin/ed wouldn't ask your age. It would simply deduce it.
mastermedo•10m ago
Knowledge of its existence is indicative enough.
blitzar•17m ago
Zed's dead baby
throawayonthe•16m ago
"...along with our downloadable Zed software (the “Software”) and related subscription service (the “Service”). "

"Customer must be at least 18 years old to use the Service"

this pretty clearly refers to the subscription service and not to the 'downloadable software' or source code

mort96•10m ago
Read the next sentence:

> By agreeing to these Terms, Customer represents and warrants to Zed that: (a) Customer is at least 18 years old

"these Terms" are the terms you need to agree to in order to download the editor. You can't agree to them if you're under 18.

FireInsight•3m ago
Gotta have someone over 18 click the button for you then I guess.
rvz•15m ago
What's next? You must be 18+ years old to use a Raspberry Pi.
mrsssnake•12m ago
It is for their online service, not the editor software.
ThePowerOfFuet•5m ago
>ARBITRATION NOTICE. Except for certain kinds of disputes described in Section 15.2 (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), you agree that disputes arising under these Terms will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration, and BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS, YOU AND ZED ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. ALTERNATIVELY, CUSTOMER MAY OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION PER SECTION 15.2(a).

That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.

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