Zed is technically designed as a game which is able to use Both the CPU and GPU of your computer, and the game you can play using is it called “Development” aka coding with different languages to solve simple to complex problems.

A bit of overkill for a simple text Editor, right ?, well here’s what that make it different from other editors. Enabling the use of the GPU along with the CPU does make it faster than most of the main stream text editors that programmers generally use, for example VS Code and Sublime. I think it won’t be fast as default vim or Neovim, but it is definitely faster compared to VS Code and also uses less RAM. An overall performance improvement for the programmers.

Zed being able to access your GPU is not the things that make it different for other editors (not the only).

Zed Website Link :- https://zed.dev/

Artificial Intelligence

With zed, you will be getting the power of GitHub copilot and GPT-4 built in, enabling you to use GPT-4 to refactor your code by pressing `ctrl-enter`. If that’s hard for you, you can even type in plain English and get the code. Chat with me in the assistant panel without changing the task, and later refer to our conversation when generating text inline (between your code). All this AI feature is provided Out of the box and require minimal to no configuration and tweaking.

Speed

Zed is technically and realistically faster compared to any other text editors, this is done through the help of using the CPU and also the GPU for opening it. The zed editor behaves like a game window, where the text editor elements can be rendered as it would render game elements. Thus making it faster that sublime text and VS Code. Mainly all the text editors run on a single, but Zen runs on both CPU and GPU, making it faster as well won’t eat up your ram.

Help

Zed keeps track of your code as you type, which helps with features like highlighting, auto-indentation, a searchable outline view, and easy code selection. It also communicates using the Language Server Protocol for autocomplete suggestions, code navigation, error checking, and code improvements.

Baked In Discord and Slack + Google Docs

Well, the heading is `bit a misleading I guess. What I mean to say that you will be getting the Discord and Slack features link channels where you can communicate with the team and also allowing you to write code along the meet.

Likewise, is Discord and Slack, you can also share your screen with other people in case if you want to do something outside the editor.

The feature that makes it better than using VS Code and discord is not that you need to two use two different application but rather that use need to navigate to the code base where you need to show your code and this can quite time-consuming and not the best way how you spend time on it. Using zed allows jumping to a teammate's location and follow their code and then switch roles to that the person who was sharing the code can follow the person whom they were checking, making it easier and faster rather than searching or navigating to a certain line.

And the reason for mentioning the Google Docs is that all the Code files are regraded as a CRDTs (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types).

Definition Of CRDTs
CRDTs, are a class of eventually-consistent data structures that allow data to be kept in sync in the face of concurrent mutations

In Zed, every buffer is a CRDT by default, which provides a foundation for multiple forms of collaboration. They’re also a key component of the multithreaded architecture that makes Zed a joy to use on your own.

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