Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/parcel-bundler/parcel/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/parcel-bundler/parcel/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: parcel and zed share 5 technologies: html5ever, image, markdown, log, and tracing. Both are written in Rust.

# parcel vs zed

parcel and zed share 5 technologies: html5ever, image, markdown, log, and tracing. Both are written in Rust.

- [parcel-bundler/parcel](https://seerepo.com/r/parcel-bundler/parcel): The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀
- [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: html5ever, image, markdown, log, tracing
- Only in parcel: React, Tailwind CSS, lightningcss, cssparser, anstyle, xml5ever, oxipng, Less, PostCSS, posthtml, Pug, Stylus, sugarss
- Only in zed: axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, lru, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, smol, objc2-foundation, Tokio, objc2-app-kit, tiny_http, core-services, swash, gpui_platform, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-quartz-core, objc2-ui-kit, x11rb, core-graphics, wayland-client, taffy, xkbcommon, console, cosmic-text, dialoguer, jsonwebtoken, rpassword, quick-xml, pulldown-cmark, linkify, handlebars, plist, resvg, ttf-parser, schemars, jsonschema, env_logger, tracing-subscriber

## Side by side

| | parcel | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 141,200 lines written, 239 code files | 1,835,785 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 2.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI | 0.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI |
| Activity | Last push November 4, 2026, 4,005 commits, 44,014 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 37,547 commits, 92,679 stars |
| Tests | 1,603 test files. 25.1% 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, parcel or zed?

zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; parcel has 141,200.

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

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

zed, with 92,679 stars; parcel has 44,014.

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

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

parcel, with 1,603 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: [parcel-bundler/parcel's code at commit 0256839](https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/tree/0256839dee32fcca0a0cfd72f48e70ab757fa8ec)

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

Both got their last push on November 4, 2026.

The proof: [parcel-bundler/parcel's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/commits)

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

parcel: an AI signed 2.5% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI; in zed, 0.5%.

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

## Sources

- parcel-bundler/parcel: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 0256839 (https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/tree/0256839dee32fcca0a0cfd72f48e70ab757fa8ec)
- 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.