--- title: Nathan Sobo on The Future of Collaborative Code Editing description: Nathan Sobo is the creator of the Atom editor and software development framework Electron. Zed is a collaborative code editor that offers real-time interaction... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nathan-sobo-on-the-future-of-collaborative-code-editing-stfxdkzl1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Nathan Sobo on The Future of Collaborative Code Editing | daily.dev og:description: Nathan Sobo is the creator of the Atom editor and software development framework Electron. Zed is a collaborative code editor that offers real-time interaction... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nathan-sobo-on-the-future-of-collaborative-code-editing-stfxdkzl1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/stfxDKzl1.png og:image:alt: Nathan Sobo on The Future of Collaborative Code Editing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Nathan Sobo on The Future of Collaborative Code Editing **[Semaphore](https://daily.dev/sources/semaphore)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nathan Sobo is the creator of the Atom editor and software development framework Electron. Zed is a collaborative code editor that offers real-time interaction among teammates inside a code development environment. Zed uses a conflict-free replicated data type to represent data in the buffer. Zed users can add other users as contacts by their GitHub usernames. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#zed](https://daily.dev/tags/zed) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/nathan-sobo-on-the-future-of-collaborative-code-editing-stfxdkzl1) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Nathan Sobo on The Future of Collaborative Code Editing","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nathan-sobo-on-the-future-of-collaborative-code-editing-stfxdkzl1","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/nathan-sobo-on-the-future-of-collaborative-code-editing-stfxdkzl1"},"datePublished":"2023-04-18T12:45:29.627Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T02:21:14.842Z","description":"Nathan Sobo is the creator of the Atom editor and software development framework Electron. Zed is a collaborative code editor that offers real-time interaction...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b207901e323a7b331d77af2d03b77232","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b207901e323a7b331d77af2d03b77232","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Semaphore","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Semaphore","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/901ef6f52ded4eb99564604b8bdaee28","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/semaphore"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/nathan-sobo-on-the-future-of-collaborative-code-editing-stfxdkzl1","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"backend,github,performance,zed","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Semaphore","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/semaphore"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Nathan Sobo on The Future of Collaborative Code Editing"}]} ```