OpenShell vs zed
OpenShell and zed share 11 technologies: axum, sqlx, Postgres, Tokio, tower, dialoguer, console, jsonwebtoken, jsonschema, tracing, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.
LinkedInWhat they share and what sets them apart
NVIDIA
OpenShell
OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents.
Rust21.1kRead on November 5, 2026, at commit d9a9196What is OpenShell built with?Only in OpenShell
- net/http
- sqlx-postgres
- sqlx-sqlite
- SQLite
- Ratatui
- crossterm
- indicatif
- golang.org/x/oauth2
- oauth2
aws-sdk-sts
- hmac
- OpenTelemetry
- metrics
kube
- k8s-openapi
- tracing-opentelemetry
- bollard
opentelemetry-otlp
tracing-appender
In common
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.
Rust92.7kRead on November 4, 2026, at commit e21ff1bWhat is zed built with?Only in zed
- lru
AWS S3- GitHub
gpui
- gpui_tokio
- smol
objc2-foundation
- tiny_http
- core-services
- swash
- gpui_platform
accesskit
- wgpu
- x11rb
- core-graphics
- wayland-client
taffy
- xkbcommon
- cosmic-text
rpassword
- markdown
- image
- quick-xml
- pulldown-cmark
- html5ever
- linkify
- handlebars
- plist
- resvg
- ttf-parser
- schemars
- log
- env_logger
Side by side
OpenShellzed
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
OpenShell796,056 lines written725 code files
zed1,835,785 lines written1,779 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
OpenShell0.3% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot
zed0.5% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
OpenShellLast push November 5, 20261,961 commits21,127 stars
zedLast push November 4, 202637,547 commits92,679 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
OpenShell383 test files39.2% of its code files have a test that imports them
zed140 test files18.1% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, OpenShell or zed?
zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; OpenShell has 796,056.
The proof: zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b
Which has more GitHub stars, OpenShell or zed?
zed, with 92,679 stars; OpenShell has 21,127.
The proof: zed-industries/zed on GitHub
Which has more tests, OpenShell or zed?
OpenShell, with 383 test files; zed has 140.
The proof: NVIDIA/OpenShell's code at commit d9a9196
Which was updated more recently, OpenShell or zed?
OpenShell: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and zed's on November 4, 2026.
The proof: NVIDIA/OpenShell's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, OpenShell or zed?
zed: an AI signed 0.5% of its commits, with Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI; in OpenShell, 0.3%.
The proof: the commits each tool signed in zed-industries/zed
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