Zed 1.0 - High-performance, open source, multiplayer code editor
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Fast — Written from scratch in Rust to efficiently leverage multiple CPU cores and your GPU. • Agentic — Run agents in parallel to smoothly edit files, navigate code, and run tools at native speed. • Collaborative — Chat with teammates, code together, and share your screen and project.
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As a solo dev, I like to work off of main (check multiple changes at same time), so I'm really excited about Zed's thread-specific multi-buffers, which allow me to more easily review code generated by each agent thread in isolation. I think that specific use case needs a little more UX work, but it's so close now with the new agent view. Overall, Zed's performance makes it far more pleasurable to work with than VS Code forks.
I've been watching Zed for a while and 1.0 feels earned. the multiplayer angle never got enough attention — real-time collaborative editing in a native code editor (not a browser tab) is something VS Code still can't do without extensions that half-work. the performance difference on large repos is noticeable from day one. my reservation is ecosystem — the extension library is still nowhere near VS Code and that gap matters for teams with niche language tooling. but as a daily driver for people who don't need 200 extensions? this might genuinely be the move.