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Zed Editor - Fast code editor built in Rust

Zed is a new code editor created by Nathan Sobo and a team who worked on Atom previously. It is a fast, collaborative and customizable code editor. Recently, it was made open-source by the creators and it is licensed under MIT license(open to change and share). It is built in a new programming language, Rust, making it speedy and offers good performance.

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Salient features of Zed:

  • Collaborative Environment: Work together with team on real time.

  • Customization and Plugins: Make it a full fledged IDE with extensions, plugins and other customizations.

  • Open Source: Recently turned open-source, with availability of full codebase.

  • Support: Available for Mac only, Windows release in pipeline.

  • Extensive support of numerous languages:
    Supports numerous programming languages including: Python, Java, Javascript

Installation

This is a simple guide in installing Zed into your machine.

Mac
Go to the official website 'https://zed.dev/download' and download the .dmg file and install the file to start using Zed.

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