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Zed

Published by Zed Industries, Inc.

High-performance code editor

Open sourceAGPL-3.0-or-later and Apache-2.0 and GPL-3.0-or-later

Highlights

  • Rust editor with a GPU-rendered interface aimed at low input latency
  • Tree-sitter parsing plus managed Language Server Protocol servers
  • Multi-buffer view edits project-wide search results in one place
  • Integrated terminal, Git gutter with diff view, and a vim mode
  • Shared projects with cursor following, through a hosted service and account

About this application

Zed is a code editor written in Rust with its own GPU-rendered user interface, built by the team that previously made Atom. The stated goal is a short delay between keystroke and character, and much of the design follows from it: rendering, syntax parsing and language-server traffic are kept off the typing path.

Syntax highlighting and structural selection come from Tree-sitter grammars, while language intelligence — completion, diagnostics, formatting, go-to-definition, renaming — comes from Language Server Protocol servers that Zed downloads and manages for the languages it knows. Extensions add further languages, themes and servers. There is a multi-buffer view that gathers project-wide search results into one editable surface, an integrated terminal, a file finder, Git status in the gutter with a diff view, and a vim mode.

Collaboration is part of the editor rather than a plugin: several people can open a shared project, follow each other's cursors and talk over voice, though that relies on the vendor's hosted service and an account. Official builds exist for macOS and Linux.

Linux

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