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Building the Zed Text Editor (with Nathan Sobo)

Developer Voices

CHAPTER

Innovative Features and Future Visions for the Zed Text Editor

The chapter delves into the innovative features of the Zed text editor, such as TreeSitter and the Language Server Protocol, emphasizing efficiency and universality for handling various programming languages. The discussion explores the collaboration between humans and AI in coding and text editing tasks, touching on generative coding with large language models. Additionally, it envisions the future direction of the platform, including integration of CRDB, enhanced extensibility, and potential open-sourcing of components like the Rust rendering framework and CRDT database.

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