Zed 1.0 Ships After Five Years and a Million Lines of Rust as Atom's Creators Bet GPU-Accelerated Editing Can Outrun Electron
Zed Industries released its GPU-accelerated, Rust-based code editor as 1.0 on April 29, 2026, pitching parallel AI agents, an Apache 2.0 codebase, and a 'disable all AI features' toggle against the Electron-era status quo.
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