In my recent post on Voidzero I described the current trend of moving Jamstack tooling to binary executables built with Rust. Well, Rust has gained critical mass as a low-level and systems language and is very quickly becoming the go-to replacement for C and C++. People have rediscovered their love for low-level coding with this much-needed update to systems languages and that didn’t pass by the open source editor programmers.

Zed is the quasi-official successor to the Atom project and it’s destinct feature is the hard emphasis on speed. Extrem speed. No electron or web layer between the editor, the system and the user. Just pure GFX accelerated productivity.

The project and its team has been around for a few years, but they have gained more and more traction, have moved beyond the experimental phase and offer versions for almost all larger operating systems now. They do join the AI bandwagon and brandish that – perhaps also as a PR thing – but none-the-less Zed in itself is a modern editor definitely worth checking out