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Zed Industries has released a public beta of its Rust-based code editor for Windows, addressing a critical gap since Windows is used by 49.5% of professional developers. The beta is available through Discord with general availability planned for October. Performance tests show Zed uses significantly less RAM than VS Code (142MB vs 730MB) and includes WSL integration for Linux development workflows.

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead? No, wait – it's on Windows

I really hope Zed isn’t another editor that fades away. I’ve used many editors over the years, and Zed stands out — it’s clean, tidy, well-organized, fast, and reliable. The only thing it has lacked so far is a richer ecosystem with more plugins.
That said, I know switching editors is never easy. In many large companies the choice is predetermined, and I still remember how hard it was to move from IntelliJ or PHPStorm to VS Code. Those editors aren’t bad, but they’re slow and not very expandable. Atom had the same story: developers loved it, but companies wouldn’t adopt it until Microsoft picked it up.
I truly hope Zed survives and grows, because VS Code is starting to feel more like PHPStorm every day — heavy and less flexible. Zed still feels like a breath of fresh air.

This was surprisingly easy to get going on both Windows and WSL. Great job, nice and fast too.

I’ve been using Zed for awhile now, and for one of my crypto projects, it’s my default editor. I really like it, and much less cluttered than anything else. The integration with Claude Code and Gemini CLI is the core of what’s working for me.