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Zed for Windows: What’s taking so long?! From rendering to crash reporting, we’ve been heads down fixing the tricky parts. Here’s what we’ve been up to → zed.dev/blog/windows...

zed.devZed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?! - Zed BlogFrom the Zed Blog: An update on what the Zed for Windows team has been doing in July and August.

ani

@anais.dev

This approach may have significant issues with 3rd-party antivirus and endpoint monitoring solutions, because this code is effectively indistinguishable from a malware dropper - "I just simply download an EXE to $TEMP, extract it, and it starts replacing binaries"

20/8/25, 10:34 pm0 reposts0 likes

ani

@anais.dev

20 Aug 2025

I would instead consider using a trampoline executable similar to what Squirrel.Windows does. In fact, I would consider just using Squirrel! It is a Known Quantity to AV at this point, it handles installation and updates for you, and it can definitely be made to work fairly easily with Rust apps