Zed

Zed is what happens when you ask "what if an IDE was actually fast?" and build from first principles in Rust. Created by the original Atom team (including GitHub co-founder Nathan Sobol), Zed has become a phenomenon on Limito for its blazing performance and innovative approach to collaborative coding with AI. While other IDEs bolt AI features onto existing architectures, Zed was designed from day one for both real-time collaboration and AI assistance, resulting in something that feels genuinely different.

Why Zed stands out on Limito: The performance is genuinely shocking if you're used to Electron-based editors. Zed starts instantly, handles massive files without stuttering, and the AI autocomplete appears so fast it feels like mind-reading. The secret is Rust and a GPU-accelerated UI—every interaction is buttery smooth. Limito users coming from VSCode-based IDEs consistently report that Zed feels like upgrading from a bicycle to a sports car.

The collaborative features are where Zed gets really interesting. Real-time pair programming is built into the core, not an extension. You can share your workspace with teammates, see their cursors, and code together with essentially zero latency. Add AI into this mix and you get something unique: you, your teammates, and AI assistants all working in the same codebase simultaneously. It's the future of how distributed teams will build software.

Limito's perspective: Zed is for developers who've been frustrated by clunky, slow IDEs and want something that respects their time and hardware. It's still maturing—the extension ecosystem is smaller than VSCode, and some features are works in progress—but the fundamentals are rock solid. The Limito community particularly loves Zed for high-performance languages (Rust, Go, C++) where you really feel the speed difference. If IDE performance has been a pain point for you, Zed deserves serious consideration. It's proof that developer tools don't have to be sluggish to be powerful.