Zed is now available on Windows

Post by dsissitka » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 6:22 AM UTC

TiredOfLife wrote: post #138

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It's not just frame rate, but also input delay. If you're using Visual Studio Code, you might be used to waiting 100 ms for a character you typed to appear. My personal workflow is based on Kitty and Neovim, which I've configured so that it can launch within 20 ms. Working without any input delay allows me to explore and edit projects at typing speed. As such, even tiny delays really bother me and make me lose my flo…

> you might be used to waiting 100 ms for a character you typed to appear. The latest benchmark I could find is 2022 and it's nowhere as bad as you claim https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/161622#issuecomme...

Post by MrDrMcCoy » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 6:24 AM UTC

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They're productivity tools, not gaming software. You'll be faster and deal with less errors using the correct optimized remote desktop tool for your job, versus what you're using now, which can be slow and error prone.

> Moonlight > Open source game streaming client > Moonlight allows you to play your PC games on almost any device OK, fine, maybe Sunshine will be different. > Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Maybe not.

Post by trenchpilgrim » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 6:33 AM UTC

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I'm glad there's finally some progress in that direction. If they actually implement subpixel RGB anti-aliasing, it would definitely be worth considering as an alternative. It's been surprising to see so many people praise Zed when its text rendering (of all things) has been in such a state for so long.

ok for what reason we need sub-pixel rgb anti aliasing here???? does we run game engine for code??

Post by trenchpilgrim » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 6:35 AM UTC

adastra22 wrote: post #101

poly2it wrote: post #41

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It's not just frame rate, but also input delay. If you're using Visual Studio Code, you might be used to waiting 100 ms for a character you typed to appear. My personal workflow is based on Kitty and Neovim, which I've configured so that it can launch within 20 ms. Working without any input delay allows me to explore and edit projects at typing speed. As such, even tiny delays really bother me and make me lose my flo…

You literally can’t tell the difference in a 20ms delay. That is an order of magnitude lower than the neural feedback loop latency. You may think that you can, but studies don’t back this up.

Post by jstimpfle » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 6:37 AM UTC

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I am confused about this. Doesn't Zed use CoreText on MacOS just as they use DirectWrite on windows. Shouldn't MacOS CoreText handle all this ?

Spitballing here, but subpixel rendering also requires integration with the rendering pipeline, specifically that you have the infrastructure to pass fractional offsets to the rasterization engine based on the concrete screen position of a glyph, and that the glyph atlas is a full RGBA texture (not just an alpha texture), and that the rasterizer knows about the particular texture format (RGBA vs BGRA etc.)