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Re:Zas Editor by amarant on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:25AM (#30954270)
Hi! This looks really cool, great work! It seems to be Mac-only for now, is Linux support on your roadmap at all?
Re:Zas Editor by cute_boi on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:34AM (#30954320)
As it is written in Swift, I highly doubt linux support is in their roadmap.
Re:Zas Editor by Annili on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:45AM (#30954381)
The more complex half is written in Rust. But you’re right, making it available for Linux isn’t something we plan to do soon
Re:Zas Editor by exikyut on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:02AM (#30955877)
Thought experiment: Rust half gets open-sourced and semi-stable-API-ified... and then out of several dozen community attempts to build a Linux UI, one of them eventually wins after 5 years :) (and a couple of stragglers build up small followings besides).

Realistically speaking, Linux (and Rust) UI is sufficiently incoherent at this point (heh shakes head "year of the desktop" for 3 decades at this point huh) I honestly don't think anything except "here's the code" would work because of the huge amount of keeping-up (unfortunately :/) necessary at this point.

Re:Zas Editor by ghosty141 on Friday April 08, 2022 @06:53AM (#30955445)
look at xi editor, it doesn't "really" work out even if it's not a technical one but a human one. It's just too much work to maintain 3-4 GUI applications which have to be in sync with a server api.