Zed is a no go in my book until they learn to respect their users and stop installing third party software* without asking. Completely unacceptable practice, and their reason of "most people will want LSPs to be there without effort" doesn't cut it.

* nodejs specifically, but it wouldn't be ok no matter what the software was. It's my computer, not yours, don't download and run stuff without getting permission.

I get where you're coming from.

But what percentage of users of a document editor would say "don't install pdf stuff on my computer without asking, I don't need to export to pdf"

Installing dependencies for popular features is very much the norm. It's mainstream software.

The same complaint would be made for VSCode and Jetbrains - the most popular IDEs

Zed is fantastic for Rust, C, C++, and similar languages.

I wouldn't bother using it for Web things like HTML, Js, CSS, because it simply isn't better at that than VSCode. Same goes for C# -- as a Microslop technology, you're better off using Microslop tooling.

I don't find Zed much worse for working with webtech either.

Yes, I'm happy with Zed a Sublime replacement, usually for general text-editing.

For coding, I'm still stuck with VSCode and nvim.