I very much applaud the effort in trying to push the boundaries, especially on the front of responsiveness and performance. We are typing on machines with mind-boggling resources and yet editors don't feel snappier(tm) at all, so I appreciate optimizing on that dimension.
However, I can't see myself moving away from Emacs. I've been using it for almost a quarter of a century and have seen many editors come and go in that timeframe: BBEdit, Textmate, Sublime Text, Atom and so on. The current hotness is VS Code, but I personally believe that will be abandoned at some point as well.
It would be great if some of the learnings of Zed can be backported to Emacs, however unlikely that is due to the amount of old cruft there.
However, I can't see myself moving away from Emacs. I've been using it for almost a quarter of a century and have seen many editors come and go in that timeframe: BBEdit, Textmate, Sublime Text, Atom and so on. The current hotness is VS Code, but I personally believe that will be abandoned at some point as well.
It would be great if some of the learnings of Zed can be backported to Emacs, however unlikely that is due to the amount of old cruft there.