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There’s a fast new code editor in town - Zed (www.youtube.com)

submitted 10 months ago by ruffsl to c/programming

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[–] davawen 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're using metal which is Apple only.

[–] porgamrer 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But why? I saw their section about rasterising everything on the GPU, and again I find it hard to understand why they need anything more than OpenGL 3.

Their UI looks like it would be an LRU glyph cache and a sprite batcher, and then you'd have 1000fps.

[–] gens 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can get lower latency with vulkan then with opengl. I remember some emulators (gamecube?) talk about why they implemented vulkan.

[–] porgamrer 3 points 10 months ago

That sounds plausible. I'm sure having the lowest possible latency was their goal. There are multiple popular rust libraries aiming to provide zero cost abstractions over a common subset of the metal, vulcan and dx12 APIs, but I've never actually used one.