Zed Has a Free Code Editor — Built in Rust, Faster Than VS Code

Zed is a high-performance code editor built in Rust — designed to be the fastest editor for modern development.

What You Get for Free

• GPU-accelerated — renders at 120fps, never drops frames
• Instant startup — opens in <100ms vs VS Code's 2-3 seconds
• Multi-buffer editing — edit multiple files in one view
• AI built-in — inline AI assist, code generation
• Collaboration — real-time multiplayer editing (like Google Docs)
• Terminal — integrated terminal
• Language Server — LSP support for all languages
• Vim mode — built-in, not an extension
• Themes — VS Code theme compatibility
• Extensions — growing extension ecosystem

Quick Start

# macOS
brew install --cask zed
# Linux
curl -f https://zed.dev/install.sh | sh

Open any project: zed .

Why Developers Switch from VS Code

VS Code is Electron (web browser pretending to be native):

• 10x faster — native Rust vs Electron's Chrome overhead
• Lower RAM — 100MB vs VS Code's 500MB+
• No extensions needed — Vim, terminal, AI, collaboration built-in
• Native feel — actual native app, not a web page in a window

A developer's VS Code used 1.2GB RAM with 15 extensions. Zed with the same project: 150MB RAM, instant file switching, no lag on large files. Same productivity, 8x less memory.

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