Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ruffle-rs/ruffle/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/ruffle-rs/ruffle/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: ruffle and zed share 9 technologies: lru, Tokio, wgpu, image, quick-xml, ttf-parser, tracing, log, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

# ruffle vs zed

ruffle and zed share 9 technologies: lru, Tokio, wgpu, image, quick-xml, ttf-parser, tracing, log, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

- [ruffle-rs/ruffle](https://seerepo.com/r/ruffle-rs/ruffle): A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
- [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: lru, Tokio, wgpu, image, quick-xml, ttf-parser, tracing, log, tracing-subscriber
- Only in ruffle: egui, fontdb, fontconfig, winit, rfd, egui_extras, indicatif, lyon_geom, png, csv, symphonia, zip, gif, jpeg-decoder, tracing-tracy, tracing-wasm, tracy-client, tracing-appender, tracing-log
- Only in zed: axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, smol, objc2-foundation, objc2-app-kit, tiny_http, core-services, swash, gpui_platform, accesskit, objc2-quartz-core, objc2-ui-kit, x11rb, core-graphics, wayland-client, taffy, xkbcommon, console, cosmic-text, dialoguer, jsonwebtoken, rpassword, markdown, pulldown-cmark, html5ever, linkify, handlebars, plist, resvg, schemars, jsonschema, env_logger

## Side by side

| | ruffle | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 276,509 lines written, 743 code files | 1,835,785 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% 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, Cursor, and Gemini CLI |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 17,770 commits, 18,816 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 37,547 commits, 92,679 stars |
| Tests | 246 test files. 8.9% 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, ruffle or zed?

zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; ruffle has 276,509.

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

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

zed, with 92,679 stars; ruffle has 18,816.

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

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

ruffle, with 246 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: [ruffle-rs/ruffle's code at commit f24403b](https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/tree/f24403b5a801b442750241f0eb0806d1c28f7561)

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

ruffle: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and zed's on November 4, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, ruffle 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](https://seerepo.com/r/zed-industries/zed/ai)

## Sources

- ruffle-rs/ruffle: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit f24403b (https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/tree/f24403b5a801b442750241f0eb0806d1c28f7561)
- 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.