Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor

The Rust-built Zed editor has reached version 1.0, released yesterday, with development led by former members of the Atom team at GitHub.

Nathan Sobo, CEO and co-founder of Zed Industries, said that Zed is neither done nor perfect, but has "reached a tipping point where most developers can feel quickly at home."

Sobo worked on Atom and Electron - the Chromium-based framework used by both Atom and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) - during nine years at GitHub from December 2011. He now says that web technology offered "an easy path to shipping" but also limited performance and capabilities.

The version 1.0 release is mainly bug-fixes but also has new features including bookmarks, which enable quick navigation to bookmarked text, and a "view commit" command palette action for Git.

Zed 1.0 is available for macOS, Windows and ...