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  • microsoft/vscode

    Stars

    192,562

    First recorded star in 2015.

  • zed-industries/zed

    Stars

    90,280

    First recorded star in 2024.

Star history overlay
207k STARS10 YR 10 MOmicrosoft/vscode207kzed-industries/zed70k

microsoft/vscode: 206,626 stars on September 16, 2026. zed-industries/zed: 70,469 stars on September 16, 2026.

Star history for microsoft/vscode
DateStars
November 18, 20152383
January 6, 20169844
February 24, 201611449
April 13, 201613155
June 1, 201615783
July 19, 201617247
September 6, 201618574
October 25, 201620356
December 13, 201622180
January 31, 201724678
March 30, 201728582
May 18, 201731557
July 6, 201733893
August 23, 201736590
October 11, 201739547
November 29, 201744285
January 17, 201847509
March 7, 201850953
April 25, 201854186
June 13, 201858557
August 1, 201861975
September 19, 201865435
November 7, 201869316
December 25, 201872163
February 12, 201975137
April 2, 201979355
May 21, 201983669
July 8, 201987051
August 26, 201990007
October 14, 201992887
December 12, 201997465
January 29, 2020100332
March 18, 2020103094
May 6, 2020106485
June 24, 2020109963
August 11, 2020113224
September 30, 2020116336
November 18, 2020119286
January 6, 2021122377
February 24, 2021125650
April 13, 2021128953
June 4, 2021131517
July 23, 2021134490
September 12, 2021137042
November 3, 2021138768
December 21, 2021141403
February 8, 2022143933
March 29, 2022146424
May 17, 2022149201
July 4, 2022151403
September 1, 2022154338
October 20, 2022156779
December 8, 2022158906
January 25, 2023160996
March 15, 2023163388
May 3, 2023165782
June 21, 2023167939
August 8, 2023169896
September 26, 2023172752
November 14, 2023174635
January 2, 2024176550
February 20, 2024178829
April 8, 2024180716
May 27, 2024182732
July 15, 2024184858
September 2, 2024186785
October 21, 2024188917
December 8, 2024190831
January 26, 2025192844
March 16, 2025195459
May 13, 2025197984
July 1, 2025200564
August 19, 2025201964
October 7, 2025203019
November 30, 2025203892
January 17, 2026204771
March 7, 2026205428
April 25, 2026205935
June 14, 2026206159
September 16, 2026206626
Star history for zed-industries/zed
DateStars
January 24, 20242246
February 4, 202418272
February 15, 202421240
February 27, 202425187
March 9, 202427170
March 21, 202428170
April 1, 202428824
April 12, 202429525
April 24, 202431374
May 5, 202432178
May 19, 202433585
May 30, 202434337
June 11, 202435123
June 22, 202437851
July 4, 202438732
July 15, 202440910
July 26, 202441960
August 7, 202442932
August 18, 202443565
August 30, 202445516
September 10, 202446363
September 22, 202447091
October 3, 202447695
October 14, 202448230
October 26, 202448842
November 6, 202449530
November 18, 202450326
November 29, 202450915
December 10, 202451463
December 22, 202451909
January 5, 202552808
January 16, 202553394
January 27, 202553925
February 8, 202554475
February 19, 202555059
March 3, 202555597
March 14, 202556164
March 25, 202556782
April 6, 202557328
April 17, 202557839
April 29, 202558329
May 10, 202559786
May 22, 202560944
June 2, 202561378
June 13, 202561701
June 25, 202562082
July 6, 202562327
July 18, 202562663
July 29, 202562981
August 9, 202563357
August 23, 202563823
September 4, 202564303
September 15, 202564663
September 26, 202565090
October 8, 202565400
October 23, 202565877
November 4, 202566271
November 15, 202566574
November 26, 202566830
December 8, 202567088
December 19, 202567388
December 31, 202567687
January 11, 202668003
January 23, 202668335
February 3, 202668575
February 14, 202668815
February 26, 202669046
March 9, 202669218
March 21, 202669395
April 1, 202669488
April 15, 202669685
April 26, 202669805
May 8, 202670061
May 19, 202670182
May 30, 202670259
June 12, 202670288
June 25, 202670308
July 28, 202670331
September 4, 202670365
September 16, 202670469
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Repository health compared

Live analysis · unavailable data stays labelled

Popularity is only one axis. Compare technical scale, maintenance cadence, ownership resilience and change pressure against the same completed analysis that sits behind each report.

Reach

Popularity and real-world adoption

Signalmicrosoft/vscodezed-industries/zed
GitHub starsCurrent public GitHub metadata total.Best result in this row: 192,56290,280
Stars gained · trailing 90dChange in the newest 90 days covered by each cached series.Best result in this row: +467+172
ForksCurrent public GitHub metadata total.Not availableNot available
Largest package audienceLargest resolved registry total; sources are shown explicitly.No resolved packageNo resolved package
Repository ageElapsed years since the GitHub creation timestamp.11 years5.6 years

Codebase

Size and technical center of gravity

Signalmicrosoft/vscodezed-industries/zed
Dominant languageLargest share of analyzed code lines at current HEAD.Not availableNot available
Code linesAnalyzed source lines at current HEAD, excluding blanks and comments.Not availableNot available
Languages representedLanguages with non-zero files or line counts.Not availableNot available

Maintenance

Commit volume and recent operating cadence

Signalmicrosoft/vscodezed-industries/zed
Repository commitsFull repository commit total reported by the analysis.Not availableNot available
Commits · trailing 90dCommit count in the newest 90 days covered by the repository analysis.Not availableNot available

Ownership

How broadly maintenance responsibility is distributed

Signalmicrosoft/vscodezed-industries/zed
Bus factorFewest analyzed contributors carrying at least half the commits.Not availableNot available
Top contributor concentrationShare of attributed commits carried by the most active contributor.Not availableNot available

Change signals

Debt markers and fix pressure in frequently changed files

Signalmicrosoft/vscodezed-industries/zed
Fix-labelled share · frequently changed filesFix-labelled commits divided by commits across the analyzed high-frequency file set.Not availableNot available
Recent TODO/FIXME movementLatest cumulative marker count and its change over the trailing 90 days.Not availableNot available

Both curves are drawn on shared axes. They are not drawn from a shared source: each series names its own below.

One axis, two sources

The overlay puts both repositories on one axis. It does not put them on one source: since July 2026 a stargazer-list series stops on a fixed date, while a series rebuilt from public archive events keeps receiving points. Each column below states its own reading.

How the star series for microsoft/vscode and zed-industries/zed were read
Fieldmicrosoft/vscodezed-industries/zed
SourceHistorical star dataHistorical star data
CoverageCovers through September 16, 2026Covers through September 16, 2026
StateStill updatingStill updating

No row states how much of a history is missing. An archive series records star actions and not unstars, so it can exceed a repository's own star total, and a figure for the difference would be wrong exactly where it looks most precise.

Notes on this comparison

  • Which has more GitHub stars, microsoft/vscode or zed-industries/zed?

    GitHub reports 192,562 stars for microsoft/vscode and 90,280 for zed-industries/zed.

  • Do both star histories cover the same period?

    Not necessarily, and each chart names its own. microsoft/vscode — Historical star data · Covers through September 16, 2026 · Still updating. zed-industries/zed — Historical star data · Covers through September 16, 2026 · Still updating. Since July 2026 GitHub serves a repository's stargazer list only to its own admins and collaborators, so one series can stop on a fixed date while the other keeps flowing from public archive events.

  • How is this comparison computed?

    Star totals come from public repository metadata. The two curves are each repository's stored star series drawn on shared axes, from whichever source is named above. Repository-health figures are computed independently from each project's commit history.