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Re:Show HN: The Goal is simple, there should be an actual fr... by elmt35 on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:25PM (#49128683)
How does it compare to Zed? I feel like they have similar goals, no?
Re:Show HN: The Goal is simple, there should be an actual fr... by Sai-09 on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:26PM (#49129232)
Good question. I will tell it in an easy way

Like, see both Zed and Sylix start from similar places (Rust, not a VS Code fork, "editors feel bloated, let's rebuild"), but their goals diverge pretty quickly. Zed's original focus was on real-time collaborative editing — multiplayer, Google Docs for code, buttery smooth rendering. AI was added later on top of that. Sylix, on the other hand, is AI-first from day one — built around the Cursor version 2.0 style workflow (minimobs, parallel agents, Element browse) but on your own subscriptions or keys instead of locking you into one model. We're built on Monaco and the monaco-vscode API, natively in Rust, giving us much of VS Code's extension ecosystem without actually forking VS Code.