obscura vs zed
obscura and zed share 8 technologies: Tokio, swash, taffy, html5ever, image, resvg, tracing, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.
LinkedInWhat they share and what sets them apart
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obscura
The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping
Rust30.5kRead on November 7, 2026, at commit bc7decfWhat is obscura built with?Only in obscura
In common
- Tokio
- swash
taffy
- html5ever
- image
- resvg
tracing
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
- gpui_platform
accesskit
- wgpu
- x11rb
- core-graphics
- wayland-client
- xkbcommon
- console
- cosmic-text
- dialoguer
- jsonwebtoken
rpassword
- markdown
- quick-xml
- pulldown-cmark
- linkify
- handlebars
- plist
- ttf-parser
- schemars
- jsonschema
- log
- env_logger
Side by side
obscurazed
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
obscura217,848 lines written157 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.
obscura2.4% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code and Codex
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.
obscuraLast push November 7, 20261,171 commits30,516 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.
obscura99 test files14% 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, obscura or zed?
zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; obscura has 217,848.
The proof: zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b
Which has more GitHub stars, obscura or zed?
zed, with 92,679 stars; obscura has 30,516.
The proof: zed-industries/zed on GitHub
Which has more tests, obscura or zed?
zed, with 140 test files; obscura has 99.
The proof: zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b
Which was updated more recently, obscura or zed?
obscura: its last push was on November 7, 2026, and zed's on November 4, 2026.
The proof: h4ckf0r0day/obscura's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, obscura or zed?
obscura: an AI signed 2.4% of its commits, with Claude Code and Codex; in zed, 0.5%.
The proof: the commits each tool signed in h4ckf0r0day/obscura
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