Zed, a GPU-accelerated IDE Written in Rust, is now available for Linux
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So the Linux version of Zed is now officially available to download, use, contribute to, and (inevitably) complain about — a long time coming!
Requests for, and development of Zed for Linux has been underway for a while, driven in part by the enthusiastic community of Zed users and contributors that have amassed since the editor’s emergence back in 2021, as the team note...
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Zed, Open-Source Code Editor by the Creators of Atom, Now on Linux!
There's no dearth of modern open-source text editors for Linux in today's time, with options such as VSCodium, Gedit, Kate, Geany, VS Code, and the recently introduced Theia IDE being some of the most impressive ones.
There's another interesting editor that has been making waves in recent times by the creators of the now defunct Atom and Tree-sitter. You might've already heard about it, it's called Zed.
Earlier this year, the developers had open-sourced it under various licenses for handling the different components of it. Back then, many of our readers were unhappy to see that there was no Linux version available, just macOS.
Luckily, the developers have finally introduced a dedicated version for Linux.
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Popular multiplayer code editor Zed gets a Linux release
A little break in the gaming news for a moment to mention that Zed, a "high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter", now has a Linux version available.
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Programmer's editor Zed arrives on Linux
Zed – sorry, US readers, that's its name, not "Zee" – is a new coding tool. Until very recently it was Mac-only, but not any more.
Zed Industries has just released version 0.143.6 of its new source code editor for developers, with a fresh feature that its users have been requesting pretty much since it appeared: it now runs on Linux as well as macOS.
Zed is one of the newer code editors around: it was first released in 2023, and went open source at the start of this year. The Register sister site Dev Class checked it out back then and that story is worth a read to find out about the program.
The program is no first-timer's effort, though: founder Nathan Sobo was also one of the creators of the Atom editor, which was one of Github's flagship products. Although it's a local desktop app, Atom was built using web technologies, notably Javascript, and in order to create a local standalone editor, the team built the Electron framework, originally called Atom Shell, and the same team also built the Tree-sitter code-parsing framework. Electron is now used by hundreds of widely-used apps, including the world's most popular editor, VS Code.
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Zed Ported Its Text Editor to Linux and It's Pretty Special
So, what makes Zed so special? First off, it comes from the same minds behind the Atom editor and anyone who’s ever used Atom knows why that editor is so popular. That means, out of the gate, Zed should have your attention.
The thing that really sets Zed apart from so many other code-worthy text editors is that it’s fast… as in super fast, like faster than any major text editor you’ve used. Click the icon to launch the app and it’s ready to go in the blink of an eye. Part of the reason for this is that Zed was written completely in Rust. The only editor you’ll ever use that’s faster is a terminal-based editor, such as vim.
Another reason why Zed rises above the competition is its real-time collaboration tools. This is where Zed raises eyebrows with its “multiplayer” feature. Essentially, this allows you to code with anyone (no matter where they are) in a way that’s pretty spiffy.
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This week in Linux, Fedora announced some plans for future releases that may be controversial. There’s a new IDE available for GNU/Linux that might turn some heads. GNOME’s Extensions Website is getting a redesign but is it any good?