Even more amazing that 10GB for the same purpose is considered acceptable. ± 100MB for window, project files, LSP servers, ASTs etc is something very few editors can achieve - I'm pretty sure Zed beats both Emacs and Neovim in memory consumption.

"Including all language servers" is a big part of that. I hope.

I’ll stick to my butterflies.

I, too, would like to use my RAM. And I would like to be able to use it on the things I deem important, not to subsidize the laziness of devs who reach for Electron.

I made the mistake of buying an 8 GB macbook air m3 a while ago, thinking it would be enough. I wasn't accounting for docker or vscode. It REALLY lags. The vim mode plugin will regularly lag on nearly every keystroke, until I kill everything and restart.

On the topic of vim, the built-in vim mode in zed is really good. The helix mode is great too!!

Maybe use it to run a small local LLM + Zed instead of just VS Code?

(I’m probably off on how much memory it takes to run a small LLM, but still.)