Add support for using pnpm to install Node.js packages.

[minhnbnt]

Currently Zed uses npm to install Node.js packages. While this works, the installation and update process can be quite slow. Switching to pnpm can make updating large package like gemini-cli much faster.

To improve speed and efficiency, I’d like to request support for pnpm as an alternative package manager for tool installation.

Thanks.

[Saucy9607]

Should this be an issue instead of a discussion?

Either way, I'd love to see this, too. I was trying to figure out why my Arch install had a hard dependency on npm, and it turns out it's zed. ☹️

Besides the speed, the potential space saving is great, too.

[dei8bit]

please give support to bun... i don't want to use npm and node anymore in my life.

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mmmm thinking well, i maybe quit completely zed editor because it use nodejs ecosystem a lot:
here i'm trying to uninstal nodejs, but i can't because the relation of dependencies.

sudo pacman -Rns nodejs
log:

checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing nodejs breaks dependency 'nodejs' required by node-gyp
:: removing nodejs breaks dependency 'nodejs' required by nodejs-nopt
:: removing nodejs breaks dependency 'nodejs>=20.17.0' required by npm
:: removing nodejs breaks dependency 'nodejs' required by semver
:: removing nodejs breaks dependency 'nodejs>=18' required by zed

so... let's coming back to vscodium

[NikolaiQuasarka]

I'll add that it would be cool to see support for other Java script environments as well, such as Deno or Bun.