Zed is a fast, lightweight alternative to VS Code and Cursor

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor developed by the same team behind Atom and Tree-sitter. It is designed to be user-friendly and starts coding immediately. The editor is written from the ground up in Rust, allowing it to efficiently utilize multiple CPU cores and GPUs. It supports parallel agent execution, enabling smooth editing, navigation, and tool execution.

Zed facilitates communication among team members, enabling collaborative coding, screen sharing, and project sharing. The editor natively supports agentic editing, allowing seamless collaboration between human users and AI. It offers comprehensive Git integration, including staging, committing, pulling, pushing, viewing diffs, and more.

Zed utilizes Zeta2, an open-weight language model, to anticipate and facilitate the user's next actions. The editor is powered by Zed UI, while the actual codebase is processed on a remote server. Multibuffers allow the editor to combine excerpts from different parts of the codebase into a single editable surface. The editor supports modal editing with Vim bindings, including features like text objects and marks.

In this week's update, Zed added tabular data previews for CSV, TSV, PSV, and SSV files, including sortable and resizable columns, value-based row filtering, and right-click copying. Additionally, the editor introduced new Git blame and stashing actions, while also reducing memory usage when opening large files.