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1. the atom years · zed-eras · 2013–2022 (approximate)

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     "range": "2013–2022",
     "summary": "inside github, the future zed founders build atom, tree-sitter, and teletype — then xray, the rust-core rehearsal with an operation-based vcs called memo. github kills xray after the microsoft acquisition, and atom is sunset the day zed goes public.",
     "title": "the atom years"
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2. the restart · zed-eras · 2019–2023 (approximate)

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     "range": "2019–2023",
     "summary": "sobo and scandurra restart from an empty repo in their free time; a warp detour, a ~$2.5m seed, and a year of dogfooding later, zed ships a macos-only public beta with a $10m series a led by redpoint.",
     "title": "the restart"
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3. the open-source year · zed-eras · 2024 (year)

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     "id": "open-source",
     "range": "2024",
     "summary": "zed goes gpl/agpl/apache-2 and becomes a community cause overnight — 1,576 hacker news points — then ships linux, the wasm extension registry, ssh remoting, and the first ai wave with anthropic.",
     "title": "the open-source year"
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4. the agent era · zed-eras · 2025 (year)

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     "id": "agents",
     "range": "2025",
     "summary": "zeta, the agent panel, and acp make zed the neutral surface for coding agents while the base bifurcates — a disable_ai flag, a privacy fork, token pricing — and sequoia leads a $32m series b as windows finally lands.",
     "title": "the agent era"
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5. the platform year · zed-eras · 2026– (approximate)

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     "id": "platform",
     "range": "2026–",
     "summary": "zed 1.0 draws the biggest thread in the project's history, zed for business launches, and the company turns toward deltadb and delta — the operation-based vcs memo sketched in 2018, now a separate app betting that threads replace pull requests.",
     "title": "the platform year"
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6. tree-sitter starts on nights and weekends · zed-timeline · 2013-11-06 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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     "confidence": "confirmed",
     "date": "2013-11-06",
     "detail": "max brunsfeld makes the first tree-sitter commit — built nights and weekends while driving atom toward 1.0. the incremental glr parser later powers github.com code navigation, neovim, helix, emacs, and zed itself.",
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7. atom public beta · zed-timeline · 2014-02-26 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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     "confidence": "confirmed",
     "date": "2014-02-26",
     "detail": "atom public beta, announced by sobo — 'a zero-compromise combination of hackability and usability.' sobo had joined github in december 2011 to work on chris wanstrath's webview-wrapped ace experiment full time; brunsfeld joined from pivotal in 2013, scandurra in 2014 as a university student whose contributions caught the team's attention.",
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8. atom open-sources — and spawns electron · zed-timeline · 2014-05-06 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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     "date": "2014-05-06",
     "detail": "atom is open-sourced under mit — including atom shell, the chromium desktop framework renamed electron, which goes on to power vs code, slack, discord, and notion. 'the ironic thing is that we created electron to create atom, but i can't imagine a worse application for electron than a code editor' — sobo, a decade later.",
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9. atom 1.0 · zed-timeline · 2015-06-25 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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     "confidence": "confirmed",
     "date": "2015-06-25",
     "detail": "atom 1.0 ships with 1.3m downloads and 350,000 monthly active users (company-reported at the time), 660 themes, 2,090 packages. redpoint later characterizes the run as '5+ years, 59k github stars, and 9.3% of engineers' — investor-reported.",
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10. teletype: crdt collaboration inside atom · zed-timeline · 2017-11-15 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2017-11-15",
      "detail": "teletype for atom launches in beta, unveiled by sobo at qcon san francisco — encrypted peer-to-peer (webrtc) real-time collaboration on a custom string-wise crdt, one of the first production crdt uses for collaborative text. scandurra authors the announcement.",
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11. xray: the rust-core rehearsal · zed-timeline · 2017-12-07 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2017-12-07",
      "detail": "the atom-archive/xray repo is created — 'an experimental next-generation electron-based text editor' with its core logic in rust. by march 2018 it switches to a client/server architecture on an rgasplit-variant copy-on-write crdt; sobo keeps a public weekly journal in the repo.",
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12. tree-sitter goes to github.com · zed-timeline · 2017-12-11 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "date": "2017-12-11",
      "detail": "brunsfeld gives a galois tech talk on tree-sitter while github is integrating it into github.com and atom. before leaving github he helps the semantic analysis team wire tree-sitter into syntax highlighting and code navigation on the site.",
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13. memo: deltadb's embryo · zed-timeline · 2018 (year) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2018",
      "detail": "xray's q3 focus is memo — 'an operation-based version control system that tracks changes at the level of individual keystrokes and synchronizes branches in real time.' eight years later the same idea ships as deltadb.",
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14. github kills xray · zed-timeline · 2018 (year) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
      "date": "2018",
      "detail": "github management makes clear there is no path forward for xray; sobo takes time off after the birth of his second daughter. the repo readme now reads 'github has decided not to move forward with any aspect of this project'; last push july 2019. microsoft's acquisition of github had closed that october.",
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15. the restart in an empty repo · zed-timeline · 2019 (year) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "confidence": "confirmed",
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      "detail": "sobo reemerges: 'antonio and i decided we would continue the xray work in our free time. we started over with an empty repo, and by fall of 2019 the foundations of zed and gpui were beginning to take shape.' scandurra meanwhile spends about two years at ditto building a crdt database in rust.",
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16. the three-month warp detour · zed-timeline · 2020-12 (month) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "date": "2020-12",
      "detail": "at the end of 2020 sobo takes a job at warp, bringing the code with him — 'three months in, i realized that i couldn't let go of my dream of building the ultimate editor.' how zed's ip was separated from warp is undocumented; the ledger marks it open.",
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17. zed-industries/zed created · zed-timeline · 2021-02-20 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "the zed-industries/zed github repo is created — private until the january 2024 open-sourcing.",
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18. ~$2.5m seed; zed industries founded · zed-timeline · 2021-04 (month) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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      "date": "2021-04",
      "detail": "a ~$2.5m seed closes — root ventures, matchstick ventures, and v1.vc; trackers split on the exact date (6 april per cb insights, 20 april per caplight/linkedin) and no lead is publicly stated. 'max and antonio soon joined me' — zed industries starts.",
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19. introducing zed — vaporware, but in rust · zed-timeline · 2021-12-15 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "the first public 'introducing zed' announcement — 'a lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in rust.' the hacker news thread runs 151 points and sets the early tone: 'this has all the characteristics of announcing vaporware. but \"in rust\"!'",
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20. zed dogfoods zed · zed-timeline · 2022-03 (month) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "the team makes the switch to coding in zed full time after a year of building the minimal feature set to dogfood.",
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21. the first public demo · zed-timeline · 2022-05-05 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "first public demo video — 'zed: collaborative coding at the speed of light' — with a private alpha promised 'in the coming weeks.'",
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22. atom's sunset, zed's sunrise · zed-timeline · 2022-06-08 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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23. the crdt dna post · zed-timeline · 2022-12-01 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "the first zed.dev blog post — 'how crdts make multiplayer text editing part of zed's dna': 'so 16 years ago, i decided to build one. it took a failed attempt, many hard lessons, and the help of some talented friends, but the tool i've been striving to create is finally emerging in the 135k lines of rust that constitute zed.'",
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24. the weekly journal returns · zed-timeline · 2023-01-23 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "'this week at zed industries' begins — a public weekly journal in the xray tradition, and the post carrying sobo's full founding narrative.",
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25. gpui: the gpu-rendered ui stack · zed-timeline · 2023-03-07 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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26. public beta and $10m series a · zed-timeline · 2023-03-15 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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27. copilot integration · zed-timeline · 2023-04-20 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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28. the open-source decision · zed-timeline · 2023-06-14 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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29. the assistant panel · zed-timeline · 2023-06-28 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "the assistant panel is introduced — an llm chat expressed as a plain text buffer, 'text is the ultimate user interface.'",
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30. gpui 2 in production · zed-timeline · 2024-01-03 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "gpui 2 reaches production — the framework's first major internal rewrite.",
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31. channels · zed-timeline · 2024-01-17 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "channels ship — link-shareable real-time collaboration rooms that become the company's virtual office.",
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32. zed goes open source · zed-timeline · 2024-01-24 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "zed is open-sourced — gpl editor, agpl server-side, apache-2 gpui — with the pledge 'we're never going to show you a banner ad in your code editor, and if we do, you can always build zed from source.' fireside hacks launches the next day. the hacker news thread runs 1,576 points — the largest coverage event to that point — mixing celebration with license-mix, cla, and telemetry scrutiny.",
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33. the wasm extension registry · zed-timeline · 2024-02-07 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "the central extensions registry repo is created; in april, 'extensible language support in zed' details the wasm/wit-sandboxed extension architecture — a deliberately narrower api surface than atom's anything-goes packages.",
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34. linux now · zed-timeline · 2024-07-10 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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35. zed ai with anthropic · zed-timeline · 2024-08-20 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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36. at-cost ai billing · zed-timeline · 2024-10-17 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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37. ssh remoting · zed-timeline · 2024-10-30 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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38. zeta, the open edit-prediction model · zed-timeline · 2025-02-13 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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39. native git · zed-timeline · 2025-03-12 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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40. the agent panel · zed-timeline · 2025-05-07 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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41. the debugger · zed-timeline · 2025-06-18 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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42. the disable_ai flag · zed-timeline · 2025-07-23 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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43. what's taking windows so long · zed-timeline · 2025-08-19 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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44. $32m led by sequoia — and a deltadb tease · zed-timeline · 2025-08-20 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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45. the zedless fork · zed-timeline · 2025-08-20 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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46. acp: lsp for agents · zed-timeline · 2025-08-27 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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47. claude code in zed · zed-timeline · 2025-09-03 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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48. token-based pricing · zed-timeline · 2025-09-24 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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49. jetbrains adopts acp · zed-timeline · 2025-10-06 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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50. windows now · zed-timeline · 2025-10-15 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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51. codex via acp · zed-timeline · 2025-10-16 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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52. zed is our office · zed-timeline · 2025-11-13 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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53. secure by default · zed-timeline · 2025-12-17 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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54. the acp registry · zed-timeline · 2026-01-28 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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55. edit prediction, plural · zed-timeline · 2026-02-04 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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56. zed for education · zed-timeline · 2026-03-09 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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57. zeta2 · zed-timeline · 2026-03-25 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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58. parallel agents · zed-timeline · 2026-04-22 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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59. zed 1.0 · zed-timeline · 2026-04-29 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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60. not building ai for the money · zed-timeline · 2026-05-05 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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61. zed for business · zed-timeline · 2026-05-06 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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62. deltadb detailed · zed-timeline · 2026-06-11 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "'software is made between commits' details deltadb — crdt operation-based version control compatible with git, versioning worktree and conversation together. techtimes frames it as 'a direct challenge to the commit-centered model that has defined software collaboration since git's creation in 2005.'",
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63. delta private beta · zed-timeline · 2026-08-12 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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64. delta public beta · zed-timeline · 2026-09-16 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "delta goes public beta — 'replace prs with delta.' the team disabled pull requests on delta's own repo; '33 of us have landed 570 changes to main since we turned off pull requests' (self-reported). free during beta, paid plans coming; 'it seems like everyone is in a race to replace github right now.'",
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