Nathan Sobo's Zed takes aim at pull requests with DeltaDB

Nathan Sobo's Zed editor is launching DeltaDB, a version control system designed to capture pre-commit edits and agent conversations that Git does not record. The system aligns with Zed's founding mission to integrate live collaboration directly into the coding interface, building on the team's experience creating the Atom editor.

Nathan Sobo @nathansobo 's Zed is introducing DeltaDB, a version control system meant to capture the edits and agent conversations that happen before code becomes a Git commit, according to a Zed blog post. The move fits the origin story Zed has been telling since its 2021 founding: the editor was built not just to be faster than Electron based tools, but to make live collaboration part of the coding surface itself. In Zed's 1.0 post, Sobo wrote that Zed's team previously built Atom, a Chrom...