rerun vs zed

rerun and zed share 19 technologies: axum, Tokio, tower, tiny_http, objc2-app-kit, objc2-foundation, accesskit, console, wgpu, wayland-client, jsonwebtoken, agent-client-protocol, image, pulldown-cmark, schemars, tracing, tracing-subscriber, log, and tracing-tracy. Both are written in Rust.

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What they share and what sets them apart

rerun-io

rerun

Visualize, query, and stream to train on multimodal robotics data.

Rust11.8kRead on November 12, 2026, at commit 4450ce0What is rerun built with?

Only in rerun

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.

Rust94.8kRead on November 12, 2026, at commit 8a5cf7eWhat is zed built with?

Only in zed

  • aws-sdk-s3
  • db
  • sqlez
  • sqlx-postgres
  • libsqlite3-sys
  • aws-sdk-kinesis
  • lru
  • heed
  • moka
  • Postgres
  • sqlx
  • AWS S3
  • GitHub
  • gpui
  • gpui_tokio
  • gpui_web
  • node_runtime
  • smol
  • wasmtime
  • objc2-core-video
  • 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
  • objc2-quartz-core
  • objc2-ui-kit
  • x11rb
  • core-graphics
  • etagere
  • alacritty_terminal
  • taffy
  • xkbcommon
  • accesskit_unix
  • objc2-metal
  • wayland-protocols-plasma
  • cosmic-text
  • dialoguer
  • lyon_path
  • 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
  • aws-sdk-bedrockruntime
  • html_to_markdown
  • markdown
  • markdown_preview
  • quick-xml
  • html5ever
  • tree-sitter-md
  • usvg
  • linkify
  • handlebars
  • mdbook
  • objc2-core-text
  • plist
  • resvg
  • ttf-parser
  • yaml-rust2
  • jsonschema
  • zlog
  • ztracing
  • env_logger
  • simplelog
  • perf-event
  • prometheus
  • tracy-client

Side by side

SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
rerun940,997 lines written2,747 code files
zed1,852,865 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.
rerun5.4% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code and GitHub Copilot
zed0.5% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Cursor
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
rerunLast push November 11, 202610,479 commits11,771 stars
zedLast push November 12, 202637,638 commits94,758 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
rerun694 test files14.7% of its code files have a test that imports them
zed140 test files18.4% of its code files have a test that imports them

Frequently asked questions

Which is bigger, rerun or zed?
zed, with 1,852,865 lines written; rerun has 940,997.

The proof: zed-industries/zed's code at commit 8a5cf7e

Which has more GitHub stars, rerun or zed?
zed, with 94,758 stars; rerun has 11,771.

The proof: zed-industries/zed on GitHub

Which has more tests, rerun or zed?
rerun, with 694 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: rerun-io/rerun's code at commit 4450ce0

Which was updated more recently, rerun or zed?
zed: its last push was on November 12, 2026, and rerun's on November 11, 2026.

The proof: zed-industries/zed's commits on GitHub

Which has more commits signed by AI, rerun or zed?
rerun: an AI signed 5.4% of its commits, with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot; in zed, 0.5%.

The proof: the commits each tool signed in rerun-io/rerun

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