wasmer vs zed

wasmer and zed share 8 technologies: tower, Tokio, dialoguer, console, schemars, tracing, log, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

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What they share and what sets them apart

wasmerio

wasmer

🚀 Fast and lightweight sandboxes for your apps and AI agents

Rust21.2kRead on November 5, 2026, at commit 66ad7a7What is wasmer built with?

Only in wasmer

  • indicatif
  • comfy-table
  • zip
  • console-subscriber

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

Side by side

SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
wasmer334,322 lines written958 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.
wasmer0.5% of its commits signed by AIWith Codex, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot
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.
wasmerLast push November 5, 202616,762 commits21,221 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.
wasmer202 test files2.9% 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, wasmer or zed?
zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; wasmer has 334,322.

The proof: zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b

Which has more GitHub stars, wasmer or zed?
zed, with 92,679 stars; wasmer has 21,221.

The proof: zed-industries/zed on GitHub

Which has more tests, wasmer or zed?
wasmer, with 202 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: wasmerio/wasmer's code at commit 66ad7a7

Which was updated more recently, wasmer or zed?
wasmer: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and zed's on November 4, 2026.

The proof: wasmerio/wasmer's commits on GitHub

Which has more commits signed by AI, wasmer or zed?
In both, an AI signed 0.5% of their commits.

The proof: the commits each tool signed in wasmerio/wasmer

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