Zed

Zed 1.0 is the stable release of a desktop code editor written entirely in Rust on a custom UI framework called GPUI, which renders every frame on the GPU rather than running inside a browser shell. The project comes from Nathan Sobo and the team behind Atom , who started over after concluding that web-based editors had a performance ceiling they could not break through. The result is a native editor aimed at developers who want IDE-level capability without the latency of Electron-based tools. This launch matters because Zed is positioning itself as a serious daily driver for working engineers, not just a fast text editor. It now ships with Git integration, SSH remoting, a debugger , multi-buffer editing across files in a single view, and broad language support across Mac, Windows, and Linux. The AI surface is built into the same workflow, with edit predictions appearing as you type and support for running multiple coding agents in parallel, including Zed's own agent alongside tools like Claude Code and Codex CLI, using either your own API keys or Zed's hosted model access. Zed is open source and developed in the open, with users contributing features, bug fixes, and triage work directly to the codebase. For founders and operators evaluating the current crop of AI coding environments, the 1.0 milestone signals that Zed considers its foundation stable enough to commit real work to, after roughly five years of development and a deliberate bet on owning the full stack from rendering to collaboration.