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Re:Sunsetting Atom by mwcampbell on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:56PM (#31670248)
zed sounds like a great project. What are your thoughts on the existing Rust GUI frameworks? Naturally the core editor widget will need to be custom no matter what, but for the rest of the UI, have you considered using one of the Rust GUI frameworks already being developed?
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Re:Sunsetting Atom by nathansobo on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:03PM (#31670379)
When we started on Zed the Rust UI framework space was much younger. In absence of a mature solution that met our exact needs, the simplest path for us was to build it ourselves. We're too far into things now to change at this point.
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Re:Sunsetting Atom by mwcampbell on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:04PM (#31670407)
Fair enough. Hopefully when you're ready to work on accessibility in your UI framework, AccessKit [1] will be ready. I'm hoping to have usable Windows and Mac implementations by the end of this year.

[1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

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Re:Sunsetting Atom by zamalek on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:51PM (#31673935)
Accessibility is a peeve of mine (for no other reason than sympathy). Thanks for your work on this.
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