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Isn’t the thing that differentiates zed actually largely its performance? Using electron or GTK or whatever would not differentiate it in this way.
by pastel8739 8mo ago
Isn’t the thing that differentiates zed actually largely its performance? Using electron or GTK or whatever would not differentiate it in this way.
- julianbraha 8mo agoThey're switching to wgpu (another performant Rust library), not GTK or electron
- RussianCow 8mo 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 8mo 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 8mo 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.