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androsyesterday at 6:18 PM0 repliesview on HN

This is for the GUI build of Emacs, not the terminal (tty) version. Emacs has had a native GUI renderer since the 90s, on macOS it uses Cocoa/NS, on Linux it uses GTK or raw X11. This project replaces that CPU-based drawing pipeline with a GPU backend: Metal on macOS and OpenGL/EGL on Linux. The tty build is unaffected.