Zed made sense to me only after I stopped trying to replace VS Code

A personal take on switching from VS Code to Zed, exploring what makes Zed different rather than treating it as a drop-in replacement. Zed offers native performance advantages by keeping only the UI local while running language servers and terminals remotely. It has built-in Git support, integrated tasks, and debugger support, but takes a simpler project model (one folder per project) compared to VS Code's multi-root workspaces. The transition is eased by importing VS Code settings and enabling a VS Code-style keymap. Key trade-offs include a simpler Git interface lacking advanced tooling like GitLens, and a smaller extension ecosystem overall.