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Nope, has nothing to do with https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts
I think this ended up on the front page because people instinctively upvoted Zed-something.
I dislike this trend of common words being used for tools
It started with Go, then Rust, then Zed. Whatever happened to giving a unique name like Hadoop?
Moreover, these new names seem to not consider the ambiguity issues in browser searches.
Java and Ruby were created in 1995.
Lua in 1993.
Python in 1991.
C in 1972.
Lisp in 1960.
Big difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020
So the "trend* is that everyone didn't figure out the arbitrary deadline you came up with on when everyone should stop using regular words?
You don't use the same marketing strategies as people did in 1960 if you want to sell your product in 2026 unless you purposefully want to fail.
So, tracing back to the original comment in this thread, Go and Rust were failures due to them having insufficient mindshare? If anything, people have often criticized the Rust community for marketing too much.