By Nathan Sobo & Max Brunsfeld & Antonio Scandurra
Atom was slow because of Electron. VS Code is faster but still not native-speed. They wanted to build the fastest editor possible, from scratch, in Rust.
Started building in 2020. Launched publicly in 2024. Open sourced under a copyleft license. Growing rapidly among developers who value speed.
The multiplayer coding feature — where you can see other developers' cursors and edits in real time — created immediate excitement in the developer community.
A code editor that's as fast as vim but with the features of VS Code. Rust makes native performance possible.
To build the editor that makes developers most productive — fast enough to never get in the way.
