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Re:Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor by saagarjha on Sunday February 26, 2023 @05:55PM (#34950567)
Isn’t the whole selling point behind their thing that they don’t use the native macOS UIs but instead send everything to the GPU?
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Re:Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor by shaunsingh on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:37PM (#34950955)
Rendering a platform native GUI and what you render it on are two different things. In the case of Zed, its a combination of - metal is quite easy to work with - apple has clear design guidelines and nice toolkits

The Xi editor team quickly found out how much of a mess "native" gui's were on windows. Zed will hopefully add support for vulkan and linux/windows later, but it makes sense to start off on macOS

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Re:Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor by saagarjha on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:56PM (#34953145)
Metal is not a platform native GUI, it is Apple's graphics API. The native UI on the platform is Cocoa (which calls Metal for some things, but isn't being used here).
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