Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/encoredev/encore/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/encoredev/encore/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: encore and zed share 11 technologies: axum, aws-sdk-s3, Postgres, AWS S3, Tokio, jsonwebtoken, handlebars, log, tracing, env_logger, and tracing-subscriber. encore is written in Go and zed in Rust.

# encore vs zed

encore and zed share 11 technologies: axum, aws-sdk-s3, Postgres, AWS S3, Tokio, jsonwebtoken, handlebars, log, tracing, env_logger, and tracing-subscriber. encore is written in Go and zed in Rust.

- [encoredev/encore](https://seerepo.com/r/encoredev/encore): Infrastructure orchestration from local to your cloud
- [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: axum, aws-sdk-s3, Postgres, AWS S3, Tokio, jsonwebtoken, handlebars, log, tracing, env_logger, tracing-subscriber
- Only in encore: net/http, Gorilla, go-sqlite3, pgvector, pgx, postgres-native-tls, postgres-protocol, pq, s3, tokio-postgres, Redis, github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/v4, aws-sdk-sns, aws-sdk-sqs, bb8, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sqs, github.com/nsqio/go-nsq, SQLite, github.com/bluele/gcache, Google, MCP, Google Cloud Storage, github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea, github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter, github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss, github.com/briandowns/spinner, github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles, golang.org/x/oauth2, hmac, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity, google-cloud-auth, mcp-go, Tailscale, github.com/getkin/kin-openapi, email_address, github.com/rs/zerolog, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, metrics, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sns, aws-sdk-cloudwatch, cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/cloudwatch, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore, github.com/felixge/httpsnoop, google-cloud-googleapis
- Only in zed: tower, db, sqlez, sqlx-postgres, libsqlite3-sys, aws-sdk-kinesis, lru, heed, moka, sqlx, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, gpui_web, node_runtime, smol, objc2-foundation, wasmtime, objc2-app-kit, objc2-core-video, tiny_http, core-services, objc2-core-media, theme, theme_settings, font-kit, core-text, swash, command_palette_hooks, component, copilot_ui, git_ui_core, gpui_platform, menu, notifications, open_path_prompt, picker, picker_preview, platform_title_bar, tasks_ui, terminal, terminal_view, title_bar, ui, ui_input, vim_mode_setting, zed_actions, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-quartz-core, objc2-ui-kit, x11rb, core-graphics, etagere, wayland-client, alacritty_terminal, taffy, xkbcommon, accesskit_unix, objc2-metal, wayland-protocols-plasma, console, cosmic-text, dialoguer, lyon, notify-rust, objc2-user-notifications, wayland-cursor, file_icons, icons, emojis, sea-orm-macros, sqlez_macros, sea-orm, credentials_provider, oauth_callback_server, zed_credentials_provider, rpassword, acp_thread, agent, agent_servers, agent_skills, agent_ui, ai_onboarding, cloud_llm_client, codestral, context_server, copilot_chat, edit_prediction, edit_prediction_context, edit_prediction_types, harbor, language_model, language_model_core, language_models, ollama, open_ai, prompt_store, zeta_prompt, agent-client-protocol, aws-sdk-bedrockruntime, html_to_markdown, markdown, markdown_preview, image, quick-xml, pulldown-cmark, html5ever, tree-sitter-md, usvg, linkify, mdbook, plist, resvg, ttf-parser, yaml-rust2, schemars, jsonschema, zlog, ztracing, simplelog, perf-event, prometheus, tracing-tracy, tracy-client

## Side by side

| | encore | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 289,424 lines written, 1,022 code files | 1,842,123 lines written, 1,778 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.5% 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, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 10, 2026, 2,282 commits, 12,702 stars | Last push November 9, 2026, 37,581 commits, 94,524 stars |
| Tests | 341 test files. 33.3% 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, encore or zed?

zed, with 1,842,123 lines written; encore has 289,424.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's code at commit 22580c6](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/22580c6e6970de1aebf653a012765025fe8bf0f7)

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

zed, with 94,524 stars; encore has 12,702.

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

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

encore, with 341 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: [encoredev/encore's code at commit 2559135](https://github.com/encoredev/encore/tree/25591353c34567646847444f7be6cd19730cae8f)

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

encore: its last push was on November 10, 2026, and zed's on November 9, 2026.

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

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

In both, an AI signed 0.5% of their commits.

## Sources

- encoredev/encore: Read on November 10, 2026, at commit 2559135 (https://github.com/encoredev/encore/tree/25591353c34567646847444f7be6cd19730cae8f)
- zed-industries/zed: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit 22580c6 (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/22580c6e6970de1aebf653a012765025fe8bf0f7)

## 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.