Zed is, hands down, the best-feeling editor I've used in years. It's fast in a way that makes every other Electron-based IDE feel like it's wading through syrup. Multi-buffer editing is genuinely great. The collaborative stuff works. When you're just typing code, Zed gets out of your way better than anything else on the market.
And I hate it, because it's still missing things that should be table stakes for a daily-driver IDE in 2026.
Three things that shouldn't be this annoying
1. Panels don't stay where you put them
If you run an AI coding agent in a side panel — Claude Code, Cursor's chat, whatever — and then open a file from the project tree, Zed happily shoves that file into the agent's pane, burying your conversation. There was no way to tell a pane "stay put, don't let new files land here."
