Zed Has a Free Editor: The GPU-Accelerated Code Editor From the Atom Creators That Opens Files in Microseconds
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VS Code is the default. But it's Electron — 200MB of Chromium rendering text. Open a large file and watch the frame rate drop. Switch between files and feel the lag. Zed is a code editor built in Rust with GPU rendering that opens instantly, scrolls at 120fps, and uses a fraction of the memory. What Zed Actually Does Zed is a high-performance code editor created by the original Atom team at GitHub. After Atom was sunset, they rebuilt from scratch in Rust with a custom GPU-accelerated