The Rise of Zed: A New Open Source Code Editor Microsoft's VS Code has been dominant in the developer community, but a new open-source code editor named Zed is gaining attention. Built in Rust by the team behind Adam editor, it aims to be fast and high-performance with AI integration. It leverages CPU cores and GPU for speed, supports GitHub co-pilot, allows real-time collaboration on code bases, and integrates with AI out of the box.
Limitations and Potential of Zed Zed offers impressive performance but has limitations such as being non-extensible currently and only available on Mac OS. However, there are plans to release a plugin API in the future along with support for Linux and Windows. Despite these limitations today, it holds potential to compete with VS Code if programming continues as a human activity.