Yes, 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.
reply> Using electron or GTK or whatever
replyYou say that like they're in the same category, but one is an embedded Chromium and the other a native windowing toolkit.
They're switching to wgpu (another performant Rust library), not GTK or electron
replyI 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.
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