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The Creators of the Atom Code Editor Open-Source Zed, Their New Rust-Based High-Performance Editor (www.infoq.com)
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[–] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

runs only on MacOS

And

get it into the hands of millions of developers

Seems contradictory

[–] expr@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. Especially since it's written in Rust... Like why? Rust has a great cross-platform story.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

they've written a custom GPU framework to achieve the performance the level of performance they have. it's currently only compatible with macos, but is being ported to other operating systems.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much GPU performance do you need for text?

[–] expr@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

For sure. If 32-year-old vim can handle multi-GB files smoothly, you don't need a GPU.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why in the world wouldn't you just use Vulkan? Then it would still be portable to other platforms with probably still good performance, no?

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

vulkan is a graphics api, not a framework. their framework is using vulkan.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If their framework is using Vulkan, why is it not compatible with anything but MacOS? Isn't the point of Vulkan that it's cross platform?

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's not fundamentally incompatible, they just haven't written the code to make it compatible yet. GPU frameworks need a lot of OS specific code, so it will take some time for them to make it run perfectly on Linux.

[–] davawen@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

This is wrong. Their framework uses metal, which is an apple only graphics API.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

runs only on MacOS for now

it will be released on both Linux and Windows, with Linux support currently being the top ranking issue on their GitHub page. they have a tracking issue showing that many pr's have already been merged working towards Linux support.