There have been improvements recently, but it still has some of the worst text rendering of any editor on macOS, if you have a non-4K display plugged in. Rendering text is kind of a big deal!

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klaussilveira 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's not just on Mac. Zed's font rendering on Linux is also buggy and ugly. And they don't seem to care much:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11676

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4334

Font rendering should be the most important feature of a text editor.

	▲	rtfeldman 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's actively being worked on - there have been 8 font rendering PRs in the past 3 weeks, most recently yesterday: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Ac... A downside that comes with the territory of building the rendering pipeline from scratch is needing to work through the long tail of complex and tradeoff-heavy font rendering issues on different displays, operating systems, drivers, etc. I know it's taking awhile to get through, but I agree it's important!
	▲	hmokiguess 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Funny enough this seems to be the exact opposite of what they preach on their mission statement. https://zed.dev/about