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ZedProject

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor written in Rust, from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

4 things

RustSoftware

loved

the tool I've been striving to create is finally emerging in the 135k lines of Rust that constitute Zed.

Nathan Sobo on building Zed in Rust

zed.dev ↗·2022-12-01Wrong?

tySoftware

recommended

We’re betting on Astral to shake up the Python ecosystem. There, we said it. ty already solves performance issues we’ve seen with other servers.

Zed on betting on Astral's ty Python language server

zed.dev ↗·2025-10-02Wrong?

RuffSoftware

uses

We now support ty and Ruff out of the box, with support for Pyrefly via an extension.

Zed's out-of-the-box Python support

zed.dev ↗·2025-10-02Wrong?

MetalSoftware

uses

We quickly began to suspect logic we added to GPUI's MetalRenderer to ensure AppKit's redraw of our window was properly synchronized with the contents of the window we draw via Metal.

How Zed's GPUI renders through Metal on macOS

zed.dev ↗·2024-02-07Wrong?

RustSoftware

uses

Over the past several weeks, we've completely rewritten Zed's UI framework to incorporate everything we've learned over the past two years building UI in Rust.

Zed ships GPUI 2, its UI framework rewritten in Rust

zed.dev ↗·2024-01-03Wrong?

RustSoftware

mixed

One of the challenges we initially faced building Zed's user interface was Rust's strict ownership system.

Zed's GPUI framework and Rust's strict ownership system

zed.dev ↗·2024-01-25Wrong?

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