[cirwin]

Zed maintainer here.

We use node.js to run a number of language servers and formatters (which are often written in node due to the VSCode ancestry...).

There've been a lot of requests to disable language servers by default; but I think that's not the right default for most users – things should work out of the box.

That said, better control over this is definitely something we will add.

[tasuki]

Is it true Zed downloads node.js as a binary from the web? Why wouldn't you use the system provided node or package it with Zed if it's necessary?

[cirwin]

We currently download node if the system version isn't recent enough (we used to always download it, but I fixed that...).