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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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[–] [email protected] 107 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

runs only on MacOS

And

get it into the hands of millions of developers

Seems contradictory

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How much GPU performance do you need for text?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I remember when we ran text editors on a turnip. It wasn't much but we were happy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My bad, I was referring to the new Linux implementation which is using Vulkan, which was not clear. The MacOS implementation only supports Metal, as MacOS does not support Vulkan natively. I assume the Vulkan implementation will also be what is used for the Windows build.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I guess if you are committed to supporting a hard to support platform, may as well get it out of the way first?

But yeah, seems like a pretty poor release.