[afandian]

I had a relatively recent graphics card (5 years old perhaps?). I don't care about 3D or games, or whatever.

So I was sad not to be able to run a text editor (let's be honest, Zed is nice but it's just displaying text). And somehow the non-accelerated version is eating 24 cores. Just for text.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/23623

I ended up buying a new graphics card in the end.

I just wish everyone could get along somehow.

[ronsor]

The fact that we need advanced GPU acceleration for a text editor is concerning.

[jsheard]

Such is life when built-in laptop displays are now pushing a billion pixels per second, rendering anything on the CPU adds up fast.

Sublime Text spent over a decade tuning their CPU renderer and it still didn't cut it at high resolutions.

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerat...

[ianlevesque]

Text editor developers get bored too!