Zed - From the makers of Atom

Remember Atom, the favourite coding tool from the founder of GitHub? They are the same people who built Electron, which made creation of cross platform desktop apps easy.

They are now back! With a lightning fast Text Edit called Zed.

Zed - Code at the speed of thought

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

zed.dev

It's a free and open source software whose code is available on GitHub

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Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It's also open source.

Built using Rust, Zed is currently available for MacOS. The team is positive about support for Linux, Windows and Web based versions.

Are you trying??

VS Code is filling that gap, right? There is also AI integration now. What is wrong in Atom being forgotten?

They can fork Atom, can't they? Why this Zed thing?

I do not use a Mac. So can't say how good it is.

Personally, I prefer code editors which works on Linux or Windows.

They are calling it VS Code killer. Perhaps it is faster than most existing alternatives.

I am with you on that one. It is good to have options.

What if VS Code goes to pay wall mode one day? Things like that are best defended if there is a good alternative around.

Checked the Zed editor after a long gap. I was hoping to find a Linux or Windows build. There were none, only macOS builds were there. The last build was 3 days old. There are issue tracking for Windows and Linux on GitHub. There you can see how much is covered and how much is left. I checked Linux, people were already divided between Flatpak, AppImage and others

The Zed maintainer for the Linux build was open about it. They there will be no binary for Linux.

Let us wait and see. .

Zed is now available on Linux. It is the first stable release of Zed for Linux.

The website says the following command will install Zed on most Linux distributions.

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curl -f https://zed.dev/install.sh | sh

Not available on Linux was one of the biggest drawback people saying about Zed.

No Windows build, if needed build one from source?