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SlickEdit vs Zed

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When comparing SlickEdit vs Zed, the Slant community recommends SlickEdit for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript IDEs or editors?” SlickEdit is ranked 35th while Zed is ranked 39th. The most important reason people chose SlickEdit is:

SlickEdit supports over 50 programming languages on nine platforms.

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Specs

Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking

Common Questions
#35
What are the best JavaScript IDEs or editors?
#39
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SlickEdit
Zed

Pros

mccauls7
Slimothy
Robin Bacher

Pro
Extensive support for programming languages

SlickEdit supports over 50 programming languages on nine platforms.

Mike

Pro
Scriptable

Write custom macro commands, functions, dialogs and tool windows.

Mike

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Multi-Platform

Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86

mccauls7
Robin Bacher

Pro
Symbol analysis support

There are powerful symbol analysis features in SlickEdit, including context tagging and references.

ExceptionalHuitzilopochtli

Pro
Extensive configuration options

mccauls7
Ryan
Slimothy

Pro
Integrated debuggers for multiple languages

Integrated debuggers for GNU C++, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, and PHP.

Ryan
Slimothy

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Built-in beautifier

The beautifier formats code as you type to help improve readability and consistency.

Slimothy

Pro
Compiler tools

Mike
Slimothy

Pro
Over 13 emulations

Choose from fifteen keyboard emulations, containing the key bindings and behaviors necessary to emulate other editors (e.g., CUA, Vim, GNU Emacs, etc.)

Mike

Pro
Portable mode

Possibility to set up a portable installation, to run on a USB drive for example.

mccauls7
Slimothy

Pro
Easy access to XCode projects

SlickEdit opens XCode projects with no conversions needed.

mccauls7
Slimothy

Pro
Third party tool integration

mccauls7
Slimothy

Pro
Easy access to Visual Studio workspace

SlickEdit opens Visual Studio workspace with no conversions needed.

Slimothy

Pro
Popular version control system

mccauls7
Laura Kyle

Pro
Customizable themes

Zed provides you with both light and dark themes out of the box. You can also develop your own with CSS.

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Cons

ExceptionalHuitzilopochtli

Con
It's kinda slow

If you have a very large project or tag database, it can hang the UI

mccauls7
Laura Kyle

Con
No auto-complete

There is no auto-complete support built in for JavaScript.

Laura Kyle
Jean-Jacques Dubray

Con
Auto-save could be more stable

Auto-save is a great feature, but there is no way to disable it.

 

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