Zed editor reaches 1.0 with GPU-native architecture

Summary

Eliminates Electron overhead for latency-sensitive coding workflows and bakes multi-agent AI coordination into editor primitives rather than bolting it on, enabling character-level collaborative sync via DeltaDB (forthcoming).

Why it matters

Eliminates Electron overhead for latency-sensitive coding workflows and bakes multi-agent AI coordination into editor primitives rather than bolting it on, enabling character-level collaborative sync via DeltaDB (forthcoming).

Sources

1. 1.we built it like a video game, organizing the entire application around feeding data to shaders running on the GPU
2. 2.we've spent five years building that surface area across Mac, Windows, and Linux, exceeding a million lines of code
3. 3.You can run multiple agents in parallel, and edit predictions suggest your next change at keystroke granularity
4. 4.hundreds of thousands of developers now rely on Zed to ship software each day
5. 5.DeltaDB, a synchronization engine built on CRDTs that tracks every change with character-level granularity