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Re: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

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Post by kylecazar »

the__alchemist wrote: post #99
gigatexal wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am one plugin away from moving to it directly instead of vscode. I really like it. It’s fast. It gets updates seemingly daily. I’ve never had it crash. It integrates LLMs well. It’s everything I wish vscode was if it were native.

I appreciate the info! Are you able to talk me through how to move a struct[class]?

I installed Zed a few days ago and have been trying to get acquainted myself.

It has far less built-in features for refactoring than other editors you might be coming from. It's handled at the LSP level, get the LSP for your language and hit cmd+ to see what it can do. I'm not working in Python or Rust at the moment (Elixir), but I'm sure they have some good extensions.

Re: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

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Post by dijit »

Jtsummers wrote: post #103
dijit wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I partly agree, but I think you're overcorrecting. Game developers didn't invent data-oriented design or performance-first thinking. But there's a reason the loudest voices advocating for them in the 2020s come from games: we work in one of the few domains where you literally cannot ship if you ignore cache lines and data layout. Our users notice a 5ms frame hitch- While web developers can add another React wrapper a…

> I think you're overcorrecting. I don't understand this part of your comment, it seems like you're replying to some other comment or something not in my comment. How am I over correcting? A statement of fact, that game developers didn't invent these things even though that's a common belief, is not an overcorrection. It's just a correction.

Ah, I read your comment as "game devs get too much credit for this stuff and people are glorifying Casey and Jon" and ran with that, but you were just correcting the historical record.

My bad. I think we're aligned on the history; I was making a point about why they're prominent advocates today (and why people are attributing invention to them) even though they didn't invent the concepts.

Re: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

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Post by trcf23 »

gigatexal wrote: post #95
the__alchemist wrote: post #93

I am confused by this without context. I have not heard of blade, but am aware that Zed built its own GUI library called GPUI. Having used Zed, this is a vote of confidence: The crate ecosystem is historically filled with libaries which try to be The future of X in rust but are disconnected from practical applications. GPUI by nature is not that; it's a UI lib built to a practical and non-trivial purpose. It sounds l…

I am one plugin away from moving to it directly instead of vscode. I really like it. It’s fast. It gets updates seemingly daily. I’ve never had it crash. It integrates LLMs well. It’s everything I wish vscode was if it were native.

Lucky you. It still crashes quite often for me and it drives me nuts that my Claude code history is lost every time…

But love the project and been using it for almost 2 years now though

Re: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

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Post by [deleted] »

the__alchemist wrote: post #135
hickelpickle wrote: post #130

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Damn, I just dove back into a vulkan project I was grinding through to learn graphics programing, life and not having the time to chase graphic programming bugs led me to put it aside for a year and a half and these new models were able to help me squash my bug and grok things fully to dive back in, but I never even consider that the rust vulkan ecosystem was worse off. it was already an insane experience getting img…

Vulkano? I remember that! Looks like it was updated last week, but I don't know if it's current with the Vulkan API, nor how it generally compares to Ash. WGPU + Winit + EGUI + EGUI component libs is its own joy of compatibility, but anecdotally they have been updating in reasonable sync. things can get out of hand if you wait too long between updates though!

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Re: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

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Post by net_ »

mort96 wrote: post #133
net_ wrote: post #129

In 2020, I started working on a (C++) game engine. Since the only decent open-source UI option was Dear ImGui (which was obviously a bad choice for consumer-facing UIs), I ended up rolling my own retained-mode UI library on top of SDL. Now, it's fully-featured enough that I rarely have to touch it. There's even a major company using it for embedded products. I don't get why every language's community doesn't just do…

How's the accessibility?

I haven't worked on screen reader support, yet. Support for alternative text input is built into SDL. UI size scaling is a feature I plan on adding eventually.

Re: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

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Post by stonogo »

atonse wrote: post #101
satvikpendem wrote: post #42

Zed also stopped GPUI (their GPU accelerated Rust UI framework) development for now, sadly. > Hey y'all, GPUI develoment is getting some major brakes put on it. We gotta focus on some business relevant work in 2026, and so I'm going to be pushing off anything that isn't directly related to Zed's use case from now on. However, Nate, former employee #1 at Zed, has started a little side repo that people can keep iterati…

Does this mean they’re struggling financially? Yet more disruption caused by coding agents, I’m sure. We saw it quite visibly with Tailwind, now I can see if code editors are maybe struggling too, especially something like Zed which was probably still used mostly by early adopter type People, who have early adopted TUI coding agents instead. I only use cursor and zed to browse code now.

I don't think it means they're struggling financially. I think it means they're not steering the ship alone any more, and are responsible to others. That's how accepting investment money generally works.

Re: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

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Post by dev_l1x_be »

trcf23 wrote: post #143
gigatexal wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am one plugin away from moving to it directly instead of vscode. I really like it. It’s fast. It gets updates seemingly daily. I’ve never had it crash. It integrates LLMs well. It’s everything I wish vscode was if it were native.

Lucky you. It still crashes quite often for me and it drives me nuts that my Claude code history is lost every time… But love the project and been using it for almost 2 years now though

Debug log says what about the crash?

Re: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

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Post by gigatexal »

the__alchemist wrote: post #120
gigatexal wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get the question. albeit in vim I use just the navigation things and selectors and s/../.. to replace stuff I am probably using something like 1% of it's power.

I'm asking how to move a function, or class to a different module (including its methods, imports throughout the project etc), as an example of IDE-101 stuff I can't figure out how to do in Zed, and makes me think Zed might [i]not[/i] be a replacement.

Ahh got it. Yeah im not sure but maybe there’s a discord or irc for folks to help with that who use zed. Even Reddit maybe?

Re: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

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Post by stefanka »

the__alchemist wrote: post #93

I am confused by this without context. I have not heard of blade, but am aware that Zed built its own GUI library called GPUI. Having used Zed, this is a vote of confidence: The crate ecosystem is historically filled with libaries which try to be The future of X in rust but are disconnected from practical applications. GPUI by nature is not that; it's a UI lib built to a practical and non-trivial purpose. It sounds l…

Cool, I haven't seen `graphics` before when I was looking for a simple UI/3D visualization option after rend3 has been abandoded. Have been considering bevy/egui too but seems more effort to learn

Re: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

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Post by gigatexal »

dev_l1x_be wrote: post #147
trcf23 wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lucky you. It still crashes quite often for me and it drives me nuts that my Claude code history is lost every time… But love the project and been using it for almost 2 years now though

Debug log says what about the crash?

This too I’m curious about. If its memory related I have 36 of it on the work laptop if that helps
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