Why hackers moved from PyCharm to Zed
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I switched from PyCharm to Zed full-time about 6 months ago because while feature wise PyCharm was very good, I could not deal with the interminable "indexing"”insane_dreamer, 2026-05-19original comment ↗
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PyCharm vs Zed
| PyCharm | Zed | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 0 | 12 |
| Hackers who criticize | 1 | 2 |
| Moved away from it | 1 | 1 |
| Moved to it | 0 | 10 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of PyCharm
No further criticism of PyCharm captured yet.
Praise for Zed
“I've also customized Zed's UI to optimize for reading and reviewing code”throw2ih020, 2026-07-10original comment ↗
“Zed + Terminal threads (love this!) + Remote machine”throwaway888abc, 2026-06-05original comment ↗
“We started using LLMs heavily at work this year and I switched from Vim to Zed to help with that.”vinc, 2026-05-26original comment ↗
“I switched from VSCode to Zed, which has a helix mode built-in and it works very well.”16bitvoid, 2026-05-13original comment ↗
“it is faster for larger codebases and also have a interesting design”mathcartney, 2026-05-02original comment ↗
Other moves from PyCharm
Other moves to Zed
- VS Code → Zed (5)
- Vim → Zed (2)
- JetBrains → Zed (1)
- JetBrains IDEs → Zed (1)