Check its license. It has its own license: read it before using it for work.

Is zed still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change today. Latest release v1.27.0, 3 days ago.

Widely used. 94k stars, 5 years old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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How to set up zed (zed-industries/zed) · gitmanual

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zed-industries/zed

Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Rust#gpui#rust-lang#text-editor#zed

Difficulty: Moderate
Time: about 15 min
Stars: ★ 93,959
Activity: Updated this month
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Open issues: 3,043
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Before you start

Is it free?: Check its licenseIt has its own license: read it before using it for work.
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change today. Latest release v1.27.0, 3 days ago.
Can I trust it?: Widely used94k stars, 5 years old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Start here

Website ↗zed.devThe project's own site.

Setup script in the repo

The maintainers included script/bootstrap. Open it to see how it's meant to be run: script/bootstrap on GitHub.

Also: script/install.sh, script/install-cmake, script/install-linux, script/bootstrap.ps1

Will it work on my device?

Yes, it installs on your macOS

A ready-made macOS download is in the latest release.

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Download for macOS

v1.27.0 · 11/4/2026 ↗

Zed-aarch64.dmg

dmg · Apple Silicon · 88.2 MB · 128,627 downloads · best match

Download

Drag the app into Applications.

curl -LO "https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/download/v1.27.0/Zed-aarch64.dmg"
open "Zed-aarch64.dmg"

Other macOS downloads (1)

Zed-x86_64.dmg

dmg · Intel · 96.4 MB · 13,193 downloads

Download

Drag the app into Applications.

curl -LO "https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/download/v1.27.0/Zed-x86_64.dmg"
open "Zed-x86_64.dmg"

Did you get it running?

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Parts list

1×Rust 1.98.1runtime
1×MinIO (S3) service

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Good to know

Cargo workspace — pick a crate with cargo run -p <name>.
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: crates/acp_thread/Cargo.toml, crates/acp_tools/Cargo.toml, crates/action_log/Cargo.toml, crates/activity_indicator/Cargo.toml and 11 more

Files we read (12)

.github/workflows/add_commented_closed_issue_to_project.yml

.github/workflows/after_release.yml

.github/workflows/compliance_check.yml

.github/workflows/extension_tests.yml

.github/workflows/nix_build.yml

.github/workflows/run_tests.yml

CONTRIBUTING.md

Cargo.toml

Procfile

README.md

compose.yml

rust-toolchain.toml

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