"Zed was designed from the ground up for machine-native speed and collaboration. Let's take a look at the newest IDE and text editor on the block. Text editors and IDEs tend to inspire devotion from their users. Vim and Emacs have long-standing power-user bases. Visual Studio Code, despite being far newer, has exploded in popularity thanks to its cross-platform support and overall flexibility. Any new editor, like any new programming language, faces a lot of incumbent competition."
"Zed, a new editor built using Rust, is being pitched by its creators as "a next-generation code editor designed for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI." Originally only available for Mac and Linux systems, it's recently been released for Microsoft Windows, allowing a much broader base of users to try it out. Zed should still be considered a pre-release offering; the release I looked at for this review was version 0.212.4."
Zed is a Rust-based code editor aimed at high-performance collaboration between humans and AI. The editor moved from a Mac/Linux-only release to include Microsoft Windows, expanding its potential user base. The available release is version 0.212.4 and contains enough features to illustrate Zed's distinct approach compared with VS Code-class editors. VS Code and Cursor users can import settings such as recent projects, while Zed-specific settings like extensions are managed differently. Zed provides multiple themes with light and dark modes, a variety of base keymaps including JetBrains and Emacs, and an optional Vim mode. A widely touted advantage of Zed is that it's a platform-native application.
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