Zed

Zed is the fastest code editor, built in Rust with GPU acceleration.

Strengths

• Blazing performance (58ms vs 97ms VS Code, ~73MB RAM)
• Native real-time collaboration with voice chat
• AI flexibility (hosted, BYOK, or local Ollama)
• Zeta open-source edit prediction
• Open source, no vendor lock-in
• GPU-accelerated rendering

Weaknesses

• No design/visual features (pure code editor)
• Relatively new
• Extension ecosystem smaller than VS Code
• Windows still in beta
• AI features launched late (Aug 2024)