5 alternatives to zed

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. (92,580 stars, NOASSERTION, ui, dev-tools, ai).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from zed-industries/zed itself (licence class: unknown), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

The alternatives in detail

• lapce/lapce
  Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
  score 4.2/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 38,979 stars · 131 components · search them · alternatives
• micro-editor/micro
  A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
  score 6.0/10 · MIT permissive · 29,762 stars · 91 components · search them
• burakorkmez/code-craft
  Build a Code Editor SaaS with Next.js 15
  score 7.3/10 · MIT permissive · 365 stars · 47 components · search them
• spartanj/ecode
  Lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance.
  score 5.7/10 · MIT permissive · 1,695 stars · 7 components · search them
• ilai-deutel/kibi
  A text editor in ≤1024 lines of code, written in Rust
  score 5.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,957 stars · 23 components · search them

Licence data: JustClaw-It's per-repo licence policy. Is zed still maintained? Check it. Licence details: licence checker. Ranking data from 2026-11-07T14:42:47Z.