After the last conversation with Nathan, Max, and Antonio—Zed's three co-founders—I still had quite a few questions to ask: why did you make the technological choices you did? How important is Rust to Zed? Did you consciously set out to own the technological stack the way you do now? How do you decide what to polish and build-once-and-for-all-time and what to ship faster? Lucky for me, they sat down with me again and answered my questions again. What follows is an editorialized transcript of an ...