This week we’re talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn’t finished when he left, so…he started Zed, a high-performance multiplayer editor that’s engineered for performance. And today, Nathan talks us through all the details.
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | This week on The Changelog | 00:52 |
| 2 | 00:52 | Start the show! | 01:47 |
| 3 | 02:38 | Tetris! | 05:42 |
| 4 | 08:20 | What's the mission of Zed? | 07:19 |
| 5 | 15:39 | When GitHub was acquired | 07:10 |
| 6 | 22:49 | Performance, extensibility, collaboration | 06:22 |
| 7 | 29:11 | Sponsor: Postman | 02:48 |
| 8 | 31:59 | GPUI invented here | 06:31 |
| 9 | 38:30 | Zed is going big | 10:06 |
| 10 | 48:35 | Paging Chris Wanstrath! | 00:18 |
| 11 | 48:53 | Engineered for performance | 03:10 |
| 12 | 52:03 | Are you hiring? | 05:46 |
| 13 | 57:49 | What's the business model? | 04:50 |
| 14 | 1:02:40 | What makes a dev change? | 03:10 |
| 15 | 1:05:50 | This multi-player world | 08:31 |
| 16 | 1:14:21 | What can devs expect? | 03:46 |
| 17 | 1:18:06 | Fast tooling is fast | 06:56 |
| 18 | 1:25:02 | Closing out the show | 00:47 |
| 19 | 1:25:49 | Outro | 01:44 |
Transcript
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So on June 9th of last year GitHub officially said farewell to Atom, the beloved text editor…
Not me. The editor.
The Atom, not the Adam…
