The Zed editor announced the open source plan . Unlike the common direct open source code, their team plans to open source Zed on top of Zed (open source Zed... on Zed).
It sounds a bit convoluted, but it is actually to let everyone use the Zed editor to contribute to Zed .
Zed is a new project led by the original author of the Atom editor—a code editor that supports multi-person collaboration. The bottom layer uses Rust, and it supports Rust by default. Very online, and various other features (such as native Vim Mode) seem to be a good match for the needs of geeks.
The first step in this plan is to open up a publicly coded channel . Once this step is complete, external developers will be able to watch the Zed team coding, chat with them via text, and even have external developers edit the code directly.
The second step is to set up a text-based conversation with links to persistent code comments. Currently the development team has been able to locate specific characters for each version in the documentation , but these annotations need to be persisted to support asynchronous workflows. They're ready to accept asynchronous contributions on Zed once they support asynchronous workflows, at which point they're officially "open sourced" as planned.
The Zed team explains why they started this unusual "open source" initiative - they've worked remotely from the start to develop Zed and thus prefer to have conversations about code rather than reviewing differences . For them, productive conversations about arbitrary lines in the codebase have become an important capability for the team.
Now, they want to expand this model to external contributors, so they proposed the "open source Zed on Zed" plan.