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Re:Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source by hbbio on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:13PM (#39123925)
It's fully made in Rust with a GUI in Rust so it should be multiplatform with a few contributions.

There are just packages for OSX for now... you know open source means you can build your own now, and that may be exactly why they release?

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Re:Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source by thomastjeffery on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:23PM (#39124030)
Apple has an entirely unique GUI framework (Cocoa) on top of an entirely unique rendering stack (Metal).

I understand why they would choose to implement Zed using those tools, but the sacrifice is platform compatibility. I'm not bothered at all with the fact that this is MacOS exclusive. I just want to know before I go try to download it!

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