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From the Zed Blog: Thorsten interviews co-founders Nathan, Max, Antonio in about the vision and the technological choices behind Zed, how they went from Atom and Electron to Rust and GPUs with Zed.

Roadmap for the Xilem backend in 2024

Search for the best state management solution for Humble UI

An overview of Rust GUI libraries and frameworks, focused on WASM. Discover the latest GUI toolkit options for Rust, increase your programming skills, and create efficient WebAssembly bundles that will help you build comprehensive applications.

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When I see the landscape of native GUI in 2022, I feel like something is missing.

Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care

This post describes the inner workings of LatencyFleX, which is a set of libraries that achieves latency reduction for video games, made as a vendor-agnostic alternative to Nvidia Reflex. A technology called Nvidia Reflex was released in 2020. It drastically improved system latency, by adjusting the pacing of the game’s main thread so that it kept queued GPU work to a minimal amount. If you are not familiar with the tech, I recommend watching this video from Battle(non)sense.

Raph Levien, 2020-12-10 I’ve done several blog posts about piet-gpu already, and more generally GPU compute, but this document is a little different in scope. Rather than showing off a prototype and presenting a research result, it will set forth a bold and ambitious plan for where this might go. I find this vision compelling, and it’s motivated me to spend a lot of energy mastering some difficult material. The grand vision is much more than one person can do, so I’ll do some of it myself...