Code editor: Zed released for Linux
Many programmers like to use Zed. The free editor impresses with its performance, but has so far only been released for macOS. Now Linux is being added.
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Zed appears for Linux for the first time: The free code editor can now be installed with a shell script via curl https://zed.dev/install.sh | sh. It is an editor specifically for programmers that is written in Rust and relies on a GPU-accelerated renderer. Zed is backed by the creators of the once popular Atom; the latter editor was discontinued by GitHub in 2022.
Zed is a popular alternative, especially for users of Visual Studio Code. Until now, however, the editor was only available directly for macOS. Now that the Linux version is officially available, the only thing missing is a Windows counterpart - where users still have to compile the software themselves. The developers had already announced the Linux version that many users wanted when they released Zed under an open-source license.
The next step is for Zed to find its way into Linux distributions as a complete package. For this, the creators of the editor are relying on the cooperation of the community - which , according to the announcement, has already been heavily involved in the porting process. The same applies to further bug fixes and additional language extensions. During development, testing took place primarily under Ubuntu.
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