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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

948: Zed is Ready For Primetime

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Wes and Scott talk about what makes Zed—the hot new editor built in Rust—fast, beautiful, and finally ready for primetime. From Git UI to extensions and AI tools, they break down what Zed gets right, what it still lacks, and whether it’s time to finally ditch VS Code. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! Syntax San Francisco Meetup We need your Spooky Stories 02:37 Brought to you by Sentry.io 04:07 What is Zed? 06:46 Zed UI: fast and clean 10:17 General editor experience 11:44 Extensions marketplace 17:53 Git UI 22:03 Problems UI 26:01 Real-time collaboration Remote Development 27:39 Command prompt tricks and built-in tools 31:03 Zed’s AI features AI Coding Sucks 37:08 What kept Scott away—and why he’s back 40:33 What’s still missing Text Manipulation Kung Fu for the Aspiring Black Belt 46:43 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Scott: Zojirushi 5.0 Liter Water Boiler Wes: Syntax Keycaps Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0

Before we get started, two things. Meetup and Spooky Stories Submission. We need you for both.

0:06.2

October 27, we are going to be doing a meetup in San Francisco at Bear Bottle Beer Garden in Salesforce Park.

0:14.7

We're in town for Get Up Universe. You don't have to actually be going to Get Up Universe to go to this.

0:18.5

It's open to anybody. We're going to have a bunch of drinks, a bunch of swag. Really good time. So if you're anywhere in the California area,

0:26.4

or somewhere in California or anywhere you want to fly down, come on out. October 27th. It's going to

0:32.3

be a hoot. Go to syntax.fm forward slash meetup and you can grab a ticket. They are free, but you do have to reserve one

0:39.0

because space is limited. Second, Halloween's coming up. We need your spooky stories. This is an

0:44.9

episode we do every single year where we read off the most terrifying spooky stories about

0:51.1

web development in general. So have you taken down prod by accident? Have you

0:55.2

published something that you shouldn't have? Have you let an SSL certificate expire? Have you

1:01.1

dropped a database by accident, deleted all the records? We want to hear your most. Stick your head

1:06.4

in the ground stories for Halloween. These are always awful to hear, but you learn a lot.

1:11.7

So please go to syntax.fmfmforg slash spooky and submit your story.

1:16.0

We keep absolutely everything anonymous, so tell us your words.

1:23.3

Welcome to syntax. Today, we're going to be talking about Z. Zed is the new hot editor

1:34.8

that's built in Rust. It is not a fork of VS code, and it is fantastic. So we're going to be

1:43.1

talking all about why you should pay attention to Zed in this episode.

1:47.5

My name is Scott Tolensky.

1:48.7

I'm a developer from Denver with me as always is Wes Boss.

1:51.7

What's up, Wes?

1:52.9

Hey, excited to talk about Zed.

1:54.7

I've been like dipping into it every, I don't know, four or five months just to kind of see where it's at,

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