2026-06-19
Seems weird that a bunch of things are happening all at once:
The Zed team is launching a beta of DeltaDB. This looks to be a fully from-scratch VSC protocol based on CRDTs, with continuous simultaneous editing and agent conversations as a major design focus. Nice. I’m curious!
Cursor annouces Origin. There are no actual details or anything on Cursor’s website yet aside from a waitlist signup, but the splash page makes it sound like a straightforward competitor to Github. It’s hosting for Git repositories.
Epic Games annouces Lore, which sounds like a serious project that wants to displace Perforce. MIT license! The focus is providing a good solution for large binary assets. Maybe this is a future for DS/ML work? Maybe DS/ML work is gone forever now? From the FAQ:
Lore is designed to combine what works in each: a centralized server-of-record for durability, access control, and conflict resolution; content-addressed storage with fragment-level deduplication that is as effective on a multi-gigabyte binary as on a kilobyte of text; sparse, lazy working copies that materialize only what you need; free branching; and a fully open, publicly versioned specification and MIT license. Normal editing operations—staging, committing, branching, diffing—never require a network round trip.
The Lore project looks most likely to matter long term — a specific use case, backed by a substantial profitable org. It’s not really about AI, but agentic workflows will benefit from Lore as compared to Perforce. The Origin project… well there isn’t really any information, so not fair to judge, but if it is literally a direct competitor to Github, then good on them, but it’s still just Git and where it’s hosted is a marginal decision. I think DeltaDB will fall into the same category as Jujutsu — obviously better that Git, but it will be difficult to gain ecosystem traction.