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Zed
Company blog · zed.dev/blogprogrammingai
Zed is the company blog at zed.dev, writing about programming and ai. Since 2021, 399 different Hacker News readers have linked it 616 times, most often “Zed – The Editor for What's Next”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 32 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Linked as the Zed code editor, a Rust-based editor with AI agent features. Commenters cite its docs, roadmap, blog posts on MCP and agentic editing, and the agentic demo page.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter calls the agentic demo on zed.dev a great four-minute demo showing how the agent works.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 32 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Most-linked posts?
- Zed – The Editor for What's Next63 people · 66 mentions · first linked 2022-01-10
- Zed: lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust (Atom team)21 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2021-12-15
- GPUI: the GPU-accelerated UI framework powering Zed13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2023-03-07
- Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-04-25
- /docs/linux8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-07-10
- You can now disable all AI features in Zed7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2025-07-23
- CRDTs make multiplayer text editing part of Zed's DNA7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-12-01
- Zed: We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-03-03
- DeltaDB: Operation-Level Version Control6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-08-21
- /docs/remote-development6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-07-12
What Hacker News says?
> How does that work exactly? Do you have a link? https://ollama.com lets you run models on your own hardware and serve them over a network. The you point your editor at that server, eg https://zed.dev/docs/ai/configuration#ollama
Comment linking /docs/ai/configuration
on “My AI skeptic friends are all nuts”Submitted Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source as a story · 1576 points
HN discussionZed has a great four minute demo showing how it works: https://zed.dev/agentic I personally have my Zed set up so the agent has to request every command be manually reviewed and approved before running.
Comment linking /agentic
on “My AI skeptic friends are all nuts”Submitted Zed on Linux Is Here as a story · 923 points
HN discussionhttps://zed.dev/roadmap It's on the roadmap for 2024
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on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted Why LLMs can't really build software as a story · 862 points
HN discussion> the Copilot integration) relies purely on Microsoft's goodwill Given that the founders and several employees are former GitHub employees, I have to imagine they know how to do this integration in a proper & officially allowed way. https://zed.dev/team
Comment linking /team
on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor as a story · 747 points
HN discussionThe core app itself is 100% Rust, but it supports integration via Microsoft's Language Server Protocol[0][1]. In practice, this means you will be running daemons locally for each language, which may be written in any language. Often these daemons are written in NodeJS since the reference implementation[2] is in NodeJS. [0] https://zed.dev/docs/adding-new-languages#lsp [1] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-…
Comment linking /docs/adding-new-languages
on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed as a story · 683 points
HN discussionAs said by someone in another thread,linux support is on their roadmap[0]. Stay tuned for that. 0: https://zed.dev/roadmap
Comment linking /roadmap
on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted Zed is our office as a story · 627 points
HN discussionHey! Thank you for this cool editor! However, has it been written with cross-platform support in mind? Otherwise, porting from mac to linux could be rather painful and time-consuming... Will there be an ETA for us linux users? I saw it on the roadmap [0] but without an ETA. [0] https://zed.dev/roadmap
Comment linking /roadmap
on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted You can now disable all AI features in Zed as a story · 577 points
HN discussionnathan wrote a large post about this! https://zed.dev/blog/crdts
Comment linking /blog/crdts
on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted Zed is now available on Windows as a story · 548 points
HN discussionRoadmap 2024, Adoption: Unix support https://zed.dev/roadmap
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on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model as a story · 516 points
HN discussionI’m a Windows user so I was sad about this but I think their reason for doing it like this makes a lot of sense. I’d do the same in their shoes, I think. The explain it in the 6th question on https://zed.dev/faq
Comment linking /faq
on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted The Zed Debugger Is Here as a story · 502 points
HN discussionThis is the content of the CLA: Zed Contributor License and Feedback Agreement Welcome to our Contributor License and Feedback Agreement! Here's a quick breakdown of what's inside: You (the contributor) are entering into an agreement with Zed Industries, Inc. You're giving Zed permission to use and share your contributions (like original works or modifications). You assure us that the contributions are truly your ow…
Comment linking /eula
on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted Sequoia backs Zed as a story · 450 points
HN discussionAlso the "CLA" link just points to https://zed.dev/cla , which asks me to authorize Zed Industries to access my private GitHub profile. So at this point I don't even know what the CLA says. That's important because not all CLAs are created equal. I think some don't fully remove the contributors' ownership, which would prevent the hypothetical future closed-sourcing.
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on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted I'm dialing back my LLM usage as a story · 422 points
HN discussion> Zed supports GitHub Copilot out of the box, and you can use GPT-4 generate or refactor code by pressing ctrl-enter and typing a natural language prompt. https://zed.dev/ Seems like that ship has sailed. Maybe it's a plugin already or could be in the future, but that's not on GP's suggestion.
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on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted Zed AI as a story · 401 points
HN discussionZed developer here, You can come try it out with us right now if you like: https://zed.dev/channel/zed-283 Though you'll have to sign the CLA first :)
Comment linking /channel/zed-283
on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed as a story · 296 points
HN discussionThis is next and not Electron-based: https://zed.dev/
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on “GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation”Submitted SSH Remoting as a story · 279 points
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