gleam vs zed
gleam and zed share 5 technologies: Tokio, rpassword, pulldown-cmark, tracing, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.
LinkedInWhat they share and what sets them apart
gleam-lang
gleam
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
Rust22kRead on November 5, 2026, at commit 2e7275fWhat is gleam built with?Only in gleam
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
- axum
- tower
aws-sdk-s3
- lru
- Postgres
- sqlx
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
- console
- cosmic-text
- dialoguer
- jsonwebtoken
- markdown
- image
- quick-xml
- html5ever
- linkify
- handlebars
- plist
- resvg
- ttf-parser
- schemars
- jsonschema
- log
- env_logger
Side by side
gleamzed
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
gleam236,829 lines written140 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.
gleam0% of its commits signed by AI
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.
gleamLast push November 3, 202611,770 commits22,021 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.
gleam148 test files44.3% 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, gleam or zed?
zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; gleam has 236,829.
The proof: zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b
Which has more GitHub stars, gleam or zed?
zed, with 92,679 stars; gleam has 22,021.
The proof: zed-industries/zed on GitHub
Which has more tests, gleam or zed?
gleam, with 148 test files; zed has 140.
The proof: gleam-lang/gleam's code at commit 2e7275f
Which was updated more recently, gleam or zed?
zed: its last push was on November 4, 2026, and gleam's on November 3, 2026.
The proof: zed-industries/zed's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, gleam or zed?
zed: an AI signed 0.5% of its commits, with Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI.
The proof: the commits each tool signed in zed-industries/zed
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