We're all home from the Zed Industries Summit and back on track with the release schedule. Here are a few highlights you can expect to see in today's release, v0.75.2.
The updated titlebar UI now enables users to easily identify who is following whom during a call.
You can now reveal files in the Finder via the command palette when focusing on an editor or through the editor context menu.
Project names are shown on hover while in Mission Control.
A command has been added to make restarting the application easy.
There are more features and bug fixes in this release, see the full list here:
On a 120Hz display, apps have ~8ms to render each frame without introducing jank. In Electron, this felt impossible to achieve. So to create Zed, we took inspiration from video games and built our own UI framework in Rust that targets modern graphics hardware: GPUI. 🧵...
Rounded rectangles are a fundamental building block of user interfaces. Zed uses Signed Distance Functions to draw them in parallel entirely on the GPU.
Rendering text is equally important. In GPUI, we let the operating system handle font rasterization and cache the resulting pixels into a texture atlas. Glyphs are then read from the atlas and assembled in parallel on the GPU.