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Abishek_Muthiantoday at 6:40 AM3 repliesview on HN

Every time I use Zed across Linux, macOS and Windows , I'm amazed stable and performant it's GPUI framework is. As a user, I'm very happy with it; of course some basic features like accessibility is missing but I'm sure it will be implemented soon.

As a developer, I'm not sure what's the barrier for entry is apart from Rust then again it's the USP as well.


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fnytoday at 6:59 AM

Live reload. GUI development in compiled languages is a pain compared to web development.

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soanvigtoday at 9:11 AM

For me it's not stable. After they change their renderer from one to another it freezes for me from time to time. But on the other hand I'm running Nvidia on Wayland so I feel no hate towards Zed owners - and restart is super quick ;)

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obliotoday at 9:18 AM

> basic features like accessibility is missing but I'm sure it will be implemented soon.

Accessibility implementations frequently are more complex than the entire UI drawing bits. Most custom UI toolkits never implement accessibility, even decades after creation.

That hope is misplaced.

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