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<h1 class="mb-10 text-4xl leading-tight text-white font-display font-extralight">Introducing Zed—A lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust.</h1>
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We think there’s a better way to write code.
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We’re building Zed because we want to write code in a tool that is:
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<h3 class="mt-10 mb-4 leading-tight text-white font-display font-extralight">Mission-critical tools should be hyper-responsive.</h3>
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When you move the cursor or type a character, you should see pixels on the next refresh of your display–every time. Even sub-perceptual pauses add up over the course of a day to create unnecessary stress. Joyful coding starts with an editor that stays out of your way.
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<h3 class="mt-10 mb-4 leading-tight text-white font-display font-extralight">Real-time collaboration produces better software.</h3>
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When you move the cursor or type a character, you should see pixels on the next refresh of your display–every time. Even sub-perceptual pauses add up over the course of a day to create unnecessary stress. Joyful coding starts with an editor that stays out of your way.
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<h3 class="mt-10 mb-4 leading-tight text-white font-display font-extralight">Keystrokes are the fundamental unit of change.</h3>
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When you move the cursor or type a character, you should see pixels on the next refresh of your display–every time. Even sub-perceptual pauses add up over the course of a day to create unnecessary stress. Joyful coding starts with an editor that stays out of your way.
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">Early access to Zed will open up mid-2022 for small teams and individuals in our <a class="underline hover:no-underline" href="/community">community</a>.</p>
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<span class="inline-block pr-5"><a href="/story" class="inline-block underline hover:no-underline">Read our story</a>.</span>
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<span class="inline-block pr-5 opacity-60"><a href="/community" class="inline-block no-underline hover:underline">Join the waitlist</a>.</span>
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<p class="mt-10 mb-10 leading-7">———</p>
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<h2 class="mt-16 mb-5 leading-tight text-white font-display font-extralight">Under the hood</h2>
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<h3 class="mt-5 mb-4 leading-tight text-white font-display font-extralight">Rust</h3>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">With performance and reliability being our priority, writing Zed in <span class="font-semibold">Rust</span> was an obvious choice.</p>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">In the past to write software with this performant you would need to use C++. Rust, for the first time, enables us to write software at that level as a very small team.</p>
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<h3 class="mt-10 mb-4 leading-tight text-white font-display font-extralight">GPUI</h3>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">While Rust enables us to build performant, reliable software, it's constraints make rending custom UIs a challenge. To attack this, we created <code>gpui</code>, a rust library that rethinks the entire rendering stack that goes all the way to the graphics hardware.</p>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">We started <code>gpui</code> as an extension of that desire to write apps that are fast and fluid, yet easy to develop itteratively. <code>gpui</code> rethinks the way we draw UI in response to the constraints of Rust. By controlling the entire stack we remove layers of extra code that would reduce performance.</p>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">Without building <code>gpui</code> the most viable way to build a cross-platform app would have been Electron. It's well documented performance limitations and single threaded nature made it a deal-breaker for us. Taking full advantage of local hardware was important to use to ensure that we can squeeze out the best performance.</p>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">We’re building <code>gpui</code> and Zed in parallel, and may consider opening <code>gpui</code> up for usage outside of it in the future.</p>
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<h3 class="mt-10 mb-4 leading-tight text-white font-display font-extralight">CRDT</h3>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">Like <code>gpui</code> enables performant UI, <code>crdt</code> is the key to making code collaborative as it is being written.</p>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">A <code>crdt</code> allows us to version control the codebase on the keystroke level—Every keystroke can be revisited, commented on or undone. Entire sessions can be replayed and scrubbed in a session, from the point of view of any player.</p>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">This level of granularity in our version control allows us to explore ideas like time traveling the codebase.</p>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">Often the best way to understand code is to experience it's creation chronologically. Imagine if you could jump to the point a piece of code was created and watch it be written in real time.</p>
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<p class="mt-10 mb-10 leading-7">———</p>
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<p class="mt-5 leading-relaxed">Excited about what we are doing? <a class="underline hover:no-underline" href="/community">Sign up for updates</a> to follow along in our development process.</p>
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