Zed on Blade

zed-on-blade.md

Zed on Blade

See Zed editor: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed

• currently MacOS-only, using Metal directly for rendering in GPUI component See Blade engine: https://github.com/kvark/blade
• specifically the blade-graphics crate providing GPU abstraction

Motivation

I love Zed! It's lightning fast and has great UX. I want it to run as well on all major platforms. I'm currently using Linux most actively. Blade is a good candidate for providing the GPU access: it supports Vulkan, Metal, and GLES/WebGL. Its abstraction is extremel thin, while having one of the nicest GPU APIs. Codebase is small. I think these 2 projects have very similar philosophies, and I'm curious how they could work together.

Artifacts

Main work branch - https://github.com/kvark/zed/tree/blade Mostly trying to stay up to date with upstream.

Progress

• Platforms
  • X11 (via xcb)
• Tex System
  • shaping
  • glyph rasterization
• Shaders
  • basic primitives
  • path rendering
  • sprite rendering
• CI
  • Nix

Current status: Zed compiles but crashes at startup (unrelated to Blade).