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Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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X-Ray

The core of Z is written in Rust with painstaking attention to, you know, algorithmic bounds and et cetera. The views would like render JSON, which would then be consumed by React on the front end and would render the UI. And so we put all this work into the core of the system written in Rust for that reason. It's going to be faster than V8, maybe in some context. This is faster than Adam used to be. I liked the ideas behind Adam. You can hack it yourself but it was always just a little bit too slow.

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