Overview
Zed is a next-generation code editor designed for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI. It aims to enhance coding efficiency and collaboration through advanced features and AI integration.
Key Features:
- High-performance collaboration with humans and AI
- Available for macOS, Linux, and soon for Windows
- Written from scratch in Rust for speed and efficiency
- Integrates upcoming LLMs for code generation and analysis
- Collaborative tools for chatting, note-taking, and screen sharing
- Native support for debugging across multiple programming languages
Use Cases:
- Collaborative coding sessions with team members
- Integrating AI to assist in code generation and transformation
- Remote development with code running on a server
- Interactive programming with Jupyter runtimes
- Using Vim-friendly modal editing for efficient coding
Benefits:
- Increased coding speed and efficiency
- Enhanced collaboration with team members and AI
- Access to a growing ecosystem of extensions
- Seamless integration with Git for version control
- Advanced text and line manipulation capabilities
Capabilities
- Written from scratch in Rust to leverage multiple CPU cores and GPU
- Integrates upcoming LLMs to generate, transform, and analyze code
- Supports debugging across multiple programming languages
- Provides native Git support for staging, committing, pulling, pushing, and viewing diffs
- Anticipates user actions with Edit Prediction powered by Zeta language model
- Enables remote development with codebase running on a remote server
- Supports multibuffer editing for composing excerpts from across the codebase
- Facilitates interactive programming via Jupyter runtimes
- Offers terminal and task runner support via Tree-sitter, WebAssembly, and Language Server Protocol
- Provides Vim-friendly modal editing with Vim bindings
- Supports language server protocol for full language integration
- Offers outline view for navigating file symbols
- Includes advanced text and line manipulation capabilities
- Provides diagnostics multibuffer for project-wide errors and warnings
- Allows custom snippets to speed up repetitive flows
- Enables command line interface usage
- Offers markdown preview for document visualization
- Supports project-wide symbols renaming with rename refactoring
- Provides syntax-aware selections for efficient syntax node selection
- Includes inlay hints for code insights
- Runs AI agents in parallel using containerized environments and Git Worktrees
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