rspack vs zed
rspack and zed share 5 technologies: Tokio, wasmtime, tracing, tracing-subscriber, and tracy-client. Both are written in Rust.
LinkedInWhat they share and what sets them apart
web-infra-dev
rspack
Fast Rust-based bundler for the web with a modernized webpack API 🦀
Rust13kRead on November 10, 2026, at commit ec5f6bdWhat is rspack built with?Only in rspack
- React
- Vue
- hashlink
lightningcss
- cssparser
- indicatif
html-escape
In common
- Tokio
- wasmtime
tracing
- tracy-client
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.
Rust94.5kRead on November 9, 2026, at commit 22580c6What is zed built with?Only in zed
- axum
- tower
aws-sdk-s3
- db
- sqlez
- sqlx-postgres
libsqlite3-sys
- lru
- heed
- moka
- Postgres
- sqlx
AWS S3- GitHub
gpui
- gpui_tokio
- gpui_web
node_runtime
- smol
objc2-foundation
- tiny_http
- core-services
- 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
accesskit
- wgpu
- x11rb
- core-graphics
- etagere
- wayland-client
alacritty_terminal
taffy
- xkbcommon
- wayland-protocols-plasma
- console
- cosmic-text
- dialoguer
lyon
- notify-rust
- wayland-cursor
- file_icons
icons
- emojis
sea-orm-macros
- sqlez_macros
- credentials_provider
- oauth_callback_server
- zed_credentials_provider
- jsonwebtoken
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
agent-client-protocol
- markdown
- markdown_preview
- image
- quick-xml
- pulldown-cmark
- html5ever
tree-sitter-md
- usvg
- linkify
- handlebars
- mdbook
- plist
- resvg
- ttf-parser
- yaml-rust2
- schemars
- jsonschema
- zlog
- ztracing
- log
- env_logger
- simplelog
- perf-event
- prometheus
- tracing-tracy
Side by side
rspackzed
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
rspack772,639 lines written1,689 code files
zed1,842,123 lines written1,778 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.
rspack1.6% of its commits signed by AIWith GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Amp
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.
rspackLast push November 10, 202610,168 commits12,973 stars
zedLast push November 9, 202637,581 commits94,524 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
rspack13,282 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, rspack or zed?
zed, with 1,842,123 lines written; rspack has 772,639.
The proof: zed-industries/zed's code at commit 22580c6
Which has more GitHub stars, rspack or zed?
zed, with 94,524 stars; rspack has 12,973.
The proof: zed-industries/zed on GitHub
Which has more tests, rspack or zed?
rspack, with 13,282 test files; zed has 140.
Which was updated more recently, rspack or zed?
rspack: its last push was on November 10, 2026, and zed's on November 9, 2026.
The proof: web-infra-dev/rspack's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, rspack or zed?
rspack: an AI signed 1.6% of its commits, with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Amp; in zed, 0.5%.
The proof: the commits each tool signed in web-infra-dev/rspack
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