Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/emilk/egui/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/emilk/egui/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: egui and zed share 9 technologies: objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-ui-kit, image, resvg, log, and env_logger. Both are written in Rust.

# egui vs zed

egui and zed share 9 technologies: objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-ui-kit, image, resvg, log, and env_logger. Both are written in Rust.

- [emilk/egui](https://seerepo.com/r/emilk/egui): egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
- [zed-industries/zed](https://seerepo.com/r/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.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-ui-kit, image, resvg, log, env_logger
- Only in egui: eframe, egui, skrifa, fontique, egui_extras, egui-wgpu, egui-winit, rfd, winit, glow, accesskit_winit, glutin, glutin-winit, smithay-clipboard, vello_cpu, harfrust, mime_guess2
- Only in zed: axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, lru, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, smol, Tokio, tiny_http, core-services, swash, gpui_platform, objc2-quartz-core, x11rb, core-graphics, wayland-client, taffy, xkbcommon, console, cosmic-text, dialoguer, jsonwebtoken, rpassword, markdown, quick-xml, pulldown-cmark, html5ever, linkify, handlebars, plist, ttf-parser, schemars, jsonschema, tracing, tracing-subscriber

## Side by side

| | egui | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 146,979 lines written, 346 code files | 1,835,785 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 2.8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 4,626 commits, 32,091 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 37,547 commits, 92,679 stars |
| Tests | 57 test files. 18.8% of its code files have a test that imports them | 140 test files. 18.1% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, egui or zed?

zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; egui has 146,979.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

### Which has more GitHub stars, egui or zed?

zed, with 92,679 stars; egui has 32,091.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed on GitHub](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed)

### Which has more tests, egui or zed?

zed, with 140 test files; egui has 57.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

### Which was updated more recently, egui or zed?

egui: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and zed's on November 4, 2026.

The proof: [emilk/egui's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/emilk/egui/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, egui or zed?

egui: an AI signed 2.8% of its commits, with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot; in zed, 0.5%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in emilk/egui](https://seerepo.com/r/emilk/egui/ai)

## Sources

- emilk/egui: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 91b5712 (https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/91b5712dd61765c337591ae25f07acee8fee3d52)
- zed-industries/zed: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit e21ff1b (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.