Nathan Sobo recently open-sourced Zed, a code editor that focuses on performance, integrates AI capabilities, and supports software teams’ collaboration out of the box. For performance, Zed leverages a Rust code base, multicore- and GPU-optimized code, with a custom Rust GUI framework. For collaboration, Zed relies on CRDTs and team channels. Zed is currently Mac only.
  • ditty
    48•4 months ago

    Sounds cool! Too bad it’s only on MacOS atm

    • Rimu
      47•4 months ago

      They wrote their own GUI toolkit (oof) and it’s hardware accelerated (argh), so OS portability is going to be unusually difficult unless they planned for it from the beginning. No mention of that in the article, so I doubt they did.

      • @[email protected]
        23•4 months ago

        They already have very experimental Linux support. You have to build whole app yourself though. I’d say that in month or two we’ll get a binary. You can track Linux porting progress in this issue

      • Carighan Maconar
        16•4 months ago

        I mean on the one hand, the hardware acceleration is awesome. The GUI toolkit is not of course (I assume MacOS has a default one to make everything look like it belongs?), but at least they made it look like a native app instead of the usual electron shit where it’s clearly a web page with a window border and some design 15y old me might think is cool but 16y old me would already have been ashamed of.

        • Ephera
          2•4 months ago

          As I understand, GUI toolkits will usually support various widget styles or “Look and Feels”.
          So, they can just use a glossy graphic for a button on macOS and a flat graphic on Windows 11, without having to reimplement the whole application in the native toolkit. It will usually not feel entirely native, but at least, it won’t look out of place…

        • @[email protected]
          2•4 months ago

          Didn’t treesitter come from the Atom editor? These guys always take things really far so this isn’t surprising.

        • @[email protected]
          2•4 months ago

          Because GTK is designed for GUI software, and this is a text editor. Almost everything is text - it’s got more in common with Vim than Gedit.