From the Zed Blog: Open projects in Docker-based Dev Containers in Zed for consistent, reproducible development environments.

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Zed v0.218 introduces Dev Container support, allowing developers to work inside Docker-based development environments directly from the editor. Dev Containers solve environment inconsistency problems by defining infrastructure as code in a devcontainer.json file, eliminating manual setup and outdated documentation. Zed implements this by leveraging its existing remote development architecture, running a remote server inside the container that communicates with the local UI. Currently uses the devcontainer CLI reference implementation with plans to add custom Zed extensions, forwardPorts support, and built-in spec definition tools.

Run Your Project in a Dev Container, in Zed — Zed's Blog

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This is very very cool! A few weeks ago there was a post about a guy nearly running some code on his machine for a tech interview only to realize its malware by asking ai to tell him if there are any issues with it.
With this container stuff said situation would have been less bad if he actually ran the software inside of the container.
Thankfully he didn’t run it at all.

Zed still miss the lintellisense icon like vscode show icons for lsp symbols.

Nice team Zed is cooking with gas over there 🔥🔥 more awesome features keep em coming!

This is very neat. I am a nvim user, but the fundamental concept of this is great! I would love to see this adopted more widely! Many have tried to perfect this concept, I think this is a great next step!