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TiredOfLife on Sept 3, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

Zed includes node.js runtime and 100s of megabytes of javascript. It is essentially Electron.

beckler on Sept 3, 2025 | [–]

I'm gonna need you to back that claim up dawg, because the only thing I see the node runtime used for, is for when the user loads a js project.

then it's basically just a proxy for node/npm afaik.

skhameneh on Sept 3, 2025 | [–]

Complete nonsense.

https://zed.dev/blog/videogame https://zed.dev/blog/we-have-to-start-over

TiredOfLife on Sept 4, 2025 | [–]

~/.local/share/zed/

Kudos on Sept 4, 2025 | | [–]

No one's debating your first sentence, they're debating your second.

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