[pastel8739]

Isn’t the thing that differentiates zed actually largely its performance? Using electron or GTK or whatever would not differentiate it in this way.

[dualogy]

> Using electron or GTK or whatever

You say that like they're in the same category, but one is an embedded Chromium and the other a native windowing toolkit.

[satvikpendem]

Yes, so I'm glad Zed at least did spend the time to reinvent the wheel, because it benefits everyone to focus on performance, not to mention we have a high quality piece of OSS at the end of it, as even if it's paused development for now, it can still be forked or otherwise iterated upon.

[julianbraha]

They're switching to wgpu (another performant Rust library), not GTK or electron

[RussianCow]

I think the parent meant that Zed could not have used an established UI library like GTK or Electron since performance was such a big focus of the editor.