Zen is simply a fork of Zed for those who are happy to use an IDE free from AI, telemetry, and other cloud-based services. I use it as my daily driver and intend to maintain it so that I can also use it as the base for some non-developer tooling I want to create.
Only tested on Linux for now, though Zed’s support for other platforms should be (mostly?) intact.



Wish you all the luck. Wondering: why not “ship” a configuration? All AI features and layout can be configured through JSON afaik.
Thanks!
As for the motivation of the fork, basically two reasons: