High-performance, open source, multiplayer code editor
Fast — Written from scratch in Rust to efficiently leverage multiple CPU cores and your GPU. • Agentic — Run agents in parallel to smoothly edit files, navigate code, and run tools at native speed. • Collaborative — Chat with teammates, code together, and share your screen and project.
Reviewers mostly praise Zed for feeling unusually fast, lightweight, and visually clean, with many saying it avoids the lag and bloat they notice in VS Code or other Electron-based editors. Several also like its AI features, collaboration tools, and overall ease of daily use, especially for quick edits and Rust work. The main caveat is breadth: users mention a smaller extension ecosystem and lighter fit for heavy workflows. One founder from Product Hunt also noted slower Python LSP performance and incomplete Vim bindings.
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fast performance (15)
clean interface (4)
collaboration features (4)
not bloated (3)
cross-language support (2)
lightweight (2)
minimal design (2)
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limited extensions (2)
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Really glad to see v1 launch, I've been using Zed for a while and the performance and customization is really great
The Rust-native approach genuinely shows in day-to-day use, especially when you have agents running in parallel. Most editors start choking under that load. Curious how the multiplayer collab works when one person is also running an agent, do their edits and the agent edits come through the same channel?
lightweight (2)clean interface (4)cross-language support (2)
nice defaults with minimal customization required, at least for typescript. the taste in design is simple and functional.
doesn't feel like bloated software. reasonable git client.
What needs improvement
I stopped using it for python projects as the LSP / linters just seemed dog slow. maybe it was a skill issue, but the whole value prop for me is that it will "just work", so needing to try to troubleshoot was undesirable.
I would consider the vim bindings in zed to be decent, but not fully comprehensive. again maybe a skill issue, but i couldn't figure out how to get `K` to map to `10k` only in visual and normal mode.
Zed makes coding fun again! It's hard to go back to other IDEs and Electron-based editors after using Zed, because you start noticing how slow they are and how much time is spent processing your input and redrawing the UI. As a bonus, it's the only editor that I can be productive with on my 10 year old Macbook.
It also has one of the best in class Github Copilot and OpenAI API integration implementations which easily competes with one of VSCode.
Also having collaboration and collective development as a first class feature is nice.
What's great
fast performance (15)lightweight (2)collaboration features (4)OpenAI API integration (1)GitHub Copilot integration (1)
Zed is a blazing-fast, minimalist editor that’s perfect for quick edits, with real-time multiplayer built in if you ever need it. It’s available on macOS and Linux (Windows “coming soon”). The trade-off is a lighter plugin ecosystem than full IDEs, so for heavier workflows I still reach for VS Code/JetBrains. Net: great speed and focus for quick changes; keep a heavier tool for deep refactors.
What's great
fast performance (15)collaboration features (4)minimal design (2)
Really glad to see v1 launch, I've been using Zed for a while and the performance and customization is really great
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The Rust-native approach genuinely shows in day-to-day use, especially when you have agents running in parallel. Most editors start choking under that load. Curious how the multiplayer collab works when one person is also running an agent, do their edits and the agent edits come through the same channel?