Zed with Antonio Scandurra

Allen Wyma talks with Antonio Scandurra (twitter.com/as__cii), co-creator of Zed (zed.dev), a high performance code editor written in Rust.

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Timestamps

• [@0:00] - Introduction

• [@2:56] - The story behind Zed

• [@6:24] - Zed’s performance and features powered by Rust

• [@12:01] - How Zed balances speed vs features

• [@16:00] - What is the most important thing an editor has to have?

• [@18:01] - Zed customization and the ability to add plugins

• [@23:13] - Zed’s built-in contacts panel for team collaboration

• [@26:54] - Third-party services that Zed uses

• [@31:28] - Zed’s tab support

• [@32:39] - Zed’s theme customization and system

• [@34:31] - Top crates that power Zed

• [@36:05] - Zed’s plans to support other platforms

• [@37:56] - Porting Rust vs porting other languages

• [@42:09] - Zed’s pricing plans

• [@43:15] - Zed’s possible plan for open-sourcing parts of the editor

• [@44:10] - Check out more information about Zed and sign up to join the waitlist

• [@44:29] - Parting thoughts

Credits

Intro Theme: twitter.com/AerocityMusic

Audio Editing: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset (twitter.com/jonhoo)

Show Notes: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosts: Allen Wyma (twitter.com/allenwyma)