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I don't think the community, or Sublime HQ, would benefit much from an open-source version. I do, however, believe it would be amazing if they released their UI
by jakearmitage 6y ago
I don't think the community, or Sublime HQ, would benefit much from an open-source version. I do, however, believe it would be amazing if they released their UI library. I think we are all curious to know how text rendering is done, how UI elements are drawn, is it using GPU or not, OpenGL/DirectX? etc.
- ben-schaaf 6y agoST3 is pure software rendering using Skia. Releasing our UI toolkit wouldn't be of much value to others as we regularly make changes and refactor things that break API compatibility. No one wants to use a UI toolkit that has next to no documentation and is constantly changing underneath them.
- jakearmitage 6y agoHow do you guys interface with X11? Do you use something similar to cairo_xlib_surface_create, but for Skia? What about font rendering? XFT?