Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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This is the content of the CLA:

Zed Contributor License and Feedback Agreement Welcome to our Contributor License and Feedback Agreement! Here's a quick breakdown of what's inside:

You (the contributor) are entering into an agreement with Zed Industries, Inc. You're giving Zed permission to use and share your contributions (like original works or modifications). You assure us that the contributions are truly your own and you have the legal right to share them. You're not required to support your contributions but you're welcome to if you wish. If you ever notice an error or change in the details you've given us, you agree to let us know. In short, this agreement covers the terms for your valuable contributions to Zed's projects.

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Adding Copilot or GPT-4 autocomplete support to an editor is not hard. You can find 100 different projects on GitHub that do this which are all just calling OpenAI. It is vastly different in scope and design than porting native applications.

I'm interested to know what people's insertion latency is on Neovim with similar IDE-like plugins, and LSP and Copilot running.

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