Zed

The Fastest AI Code Editor

5.0•40 reviews•

1.3K followers

The Fastest AI Code Editor

5.0•40 reviews•

1.3K followers

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Zed is a next-generation code editor designed for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI.

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Zed Launches

Zed 1.0High-performance, open source, multiplayer code editor

Launched on May 1st, 2026

Zed for WindowsUltra‑native Windows editor with WSL, extensions, and AI

Launched on October 17th, 2025

Zed Agentic EditingThe IDE scratch-built in Rust, now with 100% more agents

Launched on May 7th, 2025

ZetaZed's open source edit prediction model

Launched on February 18th, 2025

Zed AICode with LLMs

Launched on August 22nd, 2024

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5.0

Based on 40 reviews

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Reviewers mostly praise Zed for one thing above all: speed. They describe it as fast to launch, responsive on older machines, light on memory, and free of the bloat they associate with VS Code and other Electron-based editors. Many also like its clean, simple UI, built-in collaboration, and solid AI features, though some see the AI as good rather than best-in-class. The main caveats are a smaller extension ecosystem, lighter support for heavy workflows, and mixed language-tooling quality, with one maker of Product Hunt reporting slow Python LSP performance and incomplete Vim bindings.

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Pros

fast performance (15)

clean interface (4)

collaboration features (4)

not bloated (3)

cross-language support (2)

lightweight (2)

minimal design (2)

Cons

limited extensions (2)

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used Zed to build Product Forums (p/)

instead of VS Code, Spacemacs

•16 reviews

What's great

lightweight (2)clean interface (4)cross-language support (2)

nice defaults with minimal customization required, at least for typescript. the taste in design is simple and functional.

doesn't feel like bloated software. reasonable git client.

What needs improvement

I stopped using it for python projects as the LSP / linters just seemed dog slow. maybe it was a skill issue, but the whole value prop for me is that it will "just work", so needing to try to troubleshoot was undesirable.

I would consider the vim bindings in zed to be decent, but not fully comprehensive. again maybe a skill issue, but i couldn't figure out how to get `K` to map to `10k` only in visual and normal mode.

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VS Code

Spacemacs

I use zed for Ruby and Typescript programming in a large monorepo. Ruby has no sane LSP regardless of your editor, and Typescript works well in zed.

for personal projects (python / haskell / gleam / etc) I still use spacemacs.

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93 views7mo ago

•5 reviews

Zed makes coding fun again! It's hard to go back to other IDEs and Electron-based editors after using Zed, because you start noticing how slow they are and how much time is spent processing your input and redrawing the UI. As a bonus, it's the only editor that I can be productive with on my 10 year old Macbook. It also has one of the best in class Github Copilot and OpenAI API integration implementations which easily competes with one of VSCode. Also having collaboration and collective development as a first class feature is nice.

What's great

fast performance (15)lightweight (2)collaboration features (4)OpenAI API integration (1)GitHub Copilot integration (1)

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75 views2yr ago

used Zed to build Kuku: open source

•13 reviews

Shoutout to Zed for proving that developer tools can feel native, fast, and deeply crafted without losing their hacker soul. Kuku is a very different product, but Zed’s taste for performance, focus, and beautiful systems-level software has been a huge inspiration for how we think about building an AI-native workspace.

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13 views6d ago

used Zed to build Product Forums (p/)

instead of VS Code, Spacemacs

•16 reviews

What's great

lightweight (2)clean interface (4)cross-language support (2)

nice defaults with minimal customization required, at least for typescript. the taste in design is simple and functional.

doesn't feel like bloated software. reasonable git client.

What needs improvement

I would consider the vim bindings in zed to be decent, but not fully comprehensive. again maybe a skill issue, but i couldn't figure out how to get `K` to map to `10k` only in visual and normal mode.