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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from the makers of Atom. It is written in rust.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

New Editor, by Atom Devs, Rust

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh man I LOVED Atom. Giving this new one a test drive now :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think Zed is quite different from Atom. But Pulsar might be your thing. A direct fork of the last release of Atom being developed by ex Atom developers :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just mean that I liked the work that the devs did on Atom, which makes me want to try this one out too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, in that case you might like either. I think both are great in their own way!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just to clarify, the Pulsar devs aren't ex-Atom devs. Some of the team are from atom-community but none of the core Pulsar team were part of the official Atom team.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, interesting. In that case I misunderstood that part, I thought there were core devs of Atom involved in Pulsar, thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Watch this space for the full history, I'm literally putting the final touches on a blog post that will go into details of how Atom started then how it became Pulsar as a little celebration after we hit 3k stars.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Zed is not an IDE, it's a code editor. No, they aren't the same things, it's like saying a table and a kitchen are the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This distinction is not as meaningful as it used to be before LSPs; there's little a PyCharm IDE can do that you can't do in VS Code editor for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You are right, stand corrected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I briefly used Atom (on Win) but stopped as it was terribly slow to startup.

What is the software license for Zed? It's Github page isn't clear.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

The code for Zed itself is available under a copyleft license to ensure any improvements will benefit the entire community (GPL for the editor, AGPL for server-side components). GPUI, the UI framework that powers Zed, is distributed under the Apache 2 license, so that you can use it to build high-performance desktop applications and distribute them under any license you choose. https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-now-open-source>