--- title: The New Code Editor Zed has a Strong Start, and is now... description: Zed, a high-performance code editor from the creators of Atom, is now open source. It utilizes the strong code parsing tool Tree-sitter and emphasizes polished... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-code-editor-zed-has-a-strong-start-and-is-now-open-source-mlinvopz1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The New Code Editor Zed has a Strong Start, and is now Open Source | daily.dev og:description: Zed, a high-performance code editor from the creators of Atom, is now open source. It utilizes the strong code parsing tool Tree-sitter and emphasizes polished... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-code-editor-zed-has-a-strong-start-and-is-now-open-source-mlinvopz1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mLInvoPz1.png og:image:alt: The New Code Editor Zed has a Strong Start, and is now Open Source 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. # The New Code Editor Zed has a Strong Start, and is now Open Source **[Frontend Masters](https://daily.dev/sources/frontendmasters)** · 1 min read · 51 upvotes · 11 comments ## Summary Zed, a high-performance code editor from the creators of Atom, is now open source. It utilizes the strong code parsing tool Tree-sitter and emphasizes polished design. Extensions are planned for the future, similar to VS Code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@alwaisy** · 7 upvotes > Mean every product initially launched for MacOS users. Others (linux) are not developers! right? **@legacy8** · 3 upvotes > Having gotten used to VScode, I found ZED a little too complicated to get around, migrating from Notepad++ to Sublime Text and from Sublime Text to VS Code was a breeze for me. And then it doesn't have a Monokai theme, what code editor comes shipped without Monokai? **@lapoule** · 3 upvotes > Hmm. Vs code is already perfect... We need a lot of tools as dev but no code editor. > > And VS code was built on Atom, but it became way more popular, long time before Microsoft buyed Github. This is not a kind of victim killed by Microsoft as presented in the article. Vs Code won the battle by being used by a majority of devs, just because it was excellent. **@kyan** · 1 upvotes > Experienced Notepad, after Sublime text and next Atom, all was good but VsCode summoned it with popularity and interesting tools around. Now the best, is Jetbrains products, and VsCode the alternative. **@thenomadinorbit** · 0 upvotes > Can't wait for it to be available on Windows. --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#vscode](https://daily.dev/tags/vscode), [#zed](https://daily.dev/tags/zed) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-code-editor-zed-has-a-strong-start-and-is-now-open-source-mlinvopz1) ```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":"The New Code Editor Zed has a Strong Start, and is now Open Source","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-code-editor-zed-has-a-strong-start-and-is-now-open-source-mlinvopz1","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-code-editor-zed-has-a-strong-start-and-is-now-open-source-mlinvopz1"},"datePublished":"2024-02-03T18:23:42.677Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:44:53.242Z","description":"Zed, a high-performance code editor from the creators of Atom, is now open source. 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