Zed is a multi-user code editor built from scratch in Rust to optimize performance by leveraging multiple CPU cores and GPU acceleration. It enables real-time collaboration, AI integration for code generation and analysis, and supports features like multibuffer editing, interactive programming, and a language-aware terminal, streamlining workflows for developers and teams.
Funding
$44.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Existing code editors often struggle to efficiently utilize modern hardware, leading to performance bottlenecks, especially when handling large codebases or collaborative coding sessions. Traditional editors may also lack seamless integration with AI-powered tools, hindering developer productivity.
Solution
Zed is a high-performance, multi-user code editor engineered from the ground up using Rust to maximize performance by leveraging multiple CPU cores and GPU acceleration. The editor provides real-time collaboration features, allowing developers to seamlessly work together on projects. Zed also integrates AI capabilities for code generation, transformation, and analysis, streamlining development workflows. Its architecture supports features like multi-buffer editing, interactive programming via Jupyter runtimes, a language-aware terminal, and Vim-friendly modal editing, enhancing the coding experience.
Target Audience
Zed is designed for developers and teams who require a fast, collaborative, and intelligent code editor that can handle demanding workloads and integrate seamlessly with AI-powered tools.
Features
- Written in Rust to efficiently utilize multiple CPU cores and GPU acceleration
- Real-time collaboration for simultaneous coding with teammates
- Integration with Large Language Models (LLMs) for AI-assisted code generation, transformation, and analysis
- Multi-buffer editing to compose excerpts from across the codebase in one editable surface
- Interactive programming with inline code evaluation via Jupyter runtimes and collaborative notebook editing
- Support for multiple languages via Tree-sitter, WebAssembly, and the Language Server Protocol (LSP)
- Fast, native terminal tightly integrated with Zed's language-aware task runner and AI capabilities
- Vim-friendly modal editing with text objects and marks
- Growing extensions ecosystem to broaden language support and offer different themes
- Diagnostics for project-wide errors and warnings
- Custom snippets to speed up repetitive flows
- Split panes for customizable UI layout
- Markdown preview to visualize documentation
- Rename refactoring to rename symbols project-wide
- Syntax-aware selections for efficient code editing
- Breadcrumbs to display the whole file path