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.
  • uid0gid0@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    runs only on MacOS

    And

    get it into the hands of millions of developers

    Seems contradictory

    • expr@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Yup. Especially since it’s written in Rust… Like why? Rust has a great cross-platform story.

      • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        9 months ago

        they’ve written a custom GPU framework to achieve the performance the level of performance they have. it’s currently only compatible with macos, but is being ported to other operating systems.