Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

  • booly@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Shouldn’t the DE/Window Manager be handling that? Seems like doing it on a window by window basis would be inefficient (and look inconsistent).

    • AProfessional@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      That’s a totally unrelated part of the stack. These days you just have a compositor that combines the output of applications.

      The model of out of process rendering in Xorg was done pre-2000s but GPUs became the norm and don’t work well this way.

    • leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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      4 months ago

      The job of the window manager is to manage windows and very little else. Font rendering is done by the widget toolkit, usually via freetype/harfbuzz.