Zed 1.0

Zed is the code editor that makes VS Code look like Notepad. Literally. While everyone else was building Electron-based editors that eat your RAM for breakfast, the team behind Zed went and wrote an entire code editor from scratch in Rust—one that actually leverages your GPU and all your CPU cores instead of pretending to. They've got $32 million from Sequoia to back it up, and they're making it free because they know the real money is in making something developers genuinely can't work without.

Here's the thing: Zed doesn't just autocomplete—it runs parallel AI agents that edit files, navigate your code, and run tools simultaneously while you're doing something useful. Real-time collaboration comes baked in: chat with your team, code together live, screen share. The whole thing feels like a native app because it basically is one. Not some Electron wrapper held together with duct tape and optimism.

The code editor market is worth billions and everyone has been using the same slow, bloated tool for a decade. Zed said "what if we actually rebuilt this from first principles?" That's either the dumbest idea or the smartest one in developer tools right now. Maybe both.