How Rust-Based Zed Built World’s Fastest AI Code Editor

When Nathan Sobo set out to build the Zed code editor, he had a simple but ambitious goal: Make it fast and fun.

Zed Industries (Zed, for short) is building what it expects to be the world’s fastest text editor for hyper-responsive and collaborative coding experiences. It offers tools for native debugging support in multiple languages, agentic editing and edit prediction, with more features planned on the roadmap.

The Zed code editor and its AI capabilities are all open source, including Zeta, the open large language model (LLM) that powers…