Zed 1.0 is out – the end of Electron-based IDEs

Member-only storyZed IDE Is 1.0 — and the Electron Era Just EndedArthur11 min read·Just now--ListenShareZed shipped 1.0 today. After five years of work, more than a million lines of Rust, and a public preview that hundreds of thousands of developers have been running daily, Nathan Sobo and the Zed Industries team posted the milestone on April 29, 2026. I have been a JetBrains lifer for the better part of fifteen years. I tried VS Code. I tried Cursor. I ran code-server on a remote box for a while. None of them stuck. Zed has stuck, and the version-number news is a good excuse to say why.The short version: for over a decade, every “new” code editor announcement has been the same product wearing different hats.

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