• trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    While I generally agree with your skeptical attitude toward this, I think the fact that they were targeting Apple’s Metal graphics API to built the most performant possible IDE makes sense. You can’t just snap your fingers and have a Linux graphical stack start working with your software.

    I think the reason they targeted macOS first is probably because many of the dev team uses Macs.

    As a Linux user, I’ll happily wait for software like this to get ported to native Linux APIs so we get performant text editors instead of more Electron crap.

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      6 months ago

      As a die-hard Linux user, I understand that most of their devs probably used Macs. Sadly, they are likely not an outlier which means many ( most ) of their target customers are Mac users too.

      Overall, I applaud their focus and platform native approach. Let’s hope we get a decent Linux editor out of it at some point.