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The New Code Editor Zed has a Strong Start, and is now Open Source (frontendmasters.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Zed, a code editors from the creators of Atom, has gone open source and seems to have a bright future awaiting.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

This is a nice editor. I don’t like the comparisons to Atom since some of us remember that as “the really bloated and slow predecessor to VS Code”. Whereas Zed is quite small and fast. Opening a shell panel is instant and makes VS Code feel slow.

Its strength is multi-user (their term: multiplayer) shared editing spaces. It also has quite good AI integration and supports Github Copilot too.

I am a little concerned that they started off commercial and then went open source. Open source is great! But this path sometimes means that the original developers no longer have the time/money/interest to keep developing it. I hope that’s not the case here because they’ve got the start of something good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

For the last point, they mentionned from the very start they wanted to go open source

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