Zed Code Editor Reaches 1.0 After Rebuilding from Scratch Without Electron
By
Nathan Sobo
1mo ago· 6 min readen
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Summary
Zed, a new code editor built from scratch by the creators of Atom, has reached version 1.0. The team abandoned the Electron/web technology approach used in Atom and VS Code, instead building a native desktop application using a new architecture they invented. The editor is designed for performance, collaboration, and AI integration, positioning itself as a fundamentally better alternative to existing code editors.
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No matter how hard we worked, we couldn't make Atom better than the platform it was built on.
So we started over. Instead of building Zed like a web page, we built it like a native application.
From the Zed Blog: The editor we set out to build is now 1.0.
