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Using mainstream libraries instead of reinventing the wheel would have been a good decision with or without VC money. I like Zed but it's still my secondary ed
by Aurornis 9mo ago
Using mainstream libraries instead of reinventing the wheel would have been a good decision with or without VC money.
I like Zed but it's still my secondary editor because it's missing usability features that I value in other editors. I think we all benefit if they focus their attention on the parts of Zed that differentiate it rather than writing new frameworks and libraries.
- pastel8739 9mo agoIsn’t the thing that differentiates zed actually largely its performance? Using electron or GTK or whatever would not differentiate it in this way.
- julianbraha 9mo agoThey're switching to wgpu (another performant Rust library), not GTK or electron
- RussianCow 9mo agoI think the parent meant that Zed could not have used an established UI library like GTK or Electron since performance was such a big focus of the editor.
- satvikpendem 9mo agoYes, so I'm glad Zed at least did spend the time to reinvent the wheel, because it benefits everyone to focus on performance, not to mention we have a high quality piece of OSS at the end of it, as even if it's paused development for now, it can still be forked or otherwise iterated upon.
- dualogy 9mo ago> Using electron or GTK or whatever You say that like they're in the same category, but one is an embedded Chromium and the other a native windowing toolkit.