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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I briefly used Atom (on Win) but stopped as it was terribly slow to startup.

What is the software license for Zed? It's Github page isn't clear.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

The code for Zed itself is available under a copyleft license to ensure any improvements will benefit the entire community (GPL for the editor, AGPL for server-side components). GPUI, the UI framework that powers Zed, is distributed under the Apache 2 license, so that you can use it to build high-performance desktop applications and distribute them under any license you choose. https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-now-open-source>