Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/wasmerio/wasmer/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/wasmerio/wasmer/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: wasmer and zed share 8 technologies: tower, Tokio, dialoguer, console, schemars, tracing, log, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

# wasmer vs zed

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

- [wasmerio/wasmer](https://seerepo.com/r/wasmerio/wasmer): 🚀 Fast and lightweight sandboxes for your apps and AI agents
- [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: tower, Tokio, dialoguer, console, schemars, tracing, log, tracing-subscriber
- Only in wasmer: indicatif, comfy-table, zip, console-subscriber
- Only in zed: axum, aws-sdk-s3, lru, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, smol, objc2-foundation, 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, cosmic-text, jsonwebtoken, rpassword, markdown, image, quick-xml, pulldown-cmark, html5ever, linkify, handlebars, plist, resvg, ttf-parser, jsonschema, env_logger

## Side by side

| | wasmer | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 334,322 lines written, 958 code files | 1,835,785 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Codex, 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 5, 2026, 16,762 commits, 21,221 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 37,547 commits, 92,679 stars |
| Tests | 202 test files. 2.9% 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, wasmer or zed?

zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; wasmer has 334,322.

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

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

zed, with 92,679 stars; wasmer has 21,221.

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

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

wasmer, with 202 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: [wasmerio/wasmer's code at commit 66ad7a7](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/tree/66ad7a78ec0cb60700b07987ebcd94e4c6a4d575)

### 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](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/commits)

### 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](https://seerepo.com/r/wasmerio/wasmer/ai)

## Sources

- wasmerio/wasmer: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 66ad7a7 (https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/tree/66ad7a78ec0cb60700b07987ebcd94e4c6a4d575)
- 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.