Really? It seems better than ever to me now that we have gpui-component. That seems to finally open doors to have fully native guis that are polished enough for even commercial release. I haven't seen anything else that I would put in that category, but one choice is a start.

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piker 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The problem is that Zed has understandably and transparently abandoned supporting GPUI as an open source endeavour except to the extent contributions align with its business mission.

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nu11ptr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I remember when that came out, but I'm not sure I understand the concern. They use GPUI, so therefore they MUST keep it working and supportable, even if updating it isn't their current priority. Or are you saying they have a closed source fork now?

Actually, this story is literally them changing their renderer on linux, so they are maintaining it.

> except to the extent contributions align with its business mission

Isn't that every single open source project that is tied to a commercial entity?

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piker 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't know what the message means exactly, but I can't plan to build on GPUI with it out there, especially when crates that don't carry that caveat are suffering from being under-resourced.

	▲	nu11ptr 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		IMO, as long as Zed uses it, we are safe. If it doesn't, we aren't. I'm keeping it that simple.

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atombender 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I tried gpui recently and I found it to be very, very immature. Turns out even things like input components aren't in gpui, so if you want to display a dialog box with some text fields, you have to write it from scratch, including cursor, selection, clipboard etc. — Zed has all of that, but it's in their own internal crates.

Do you know how well gpui-component supports typical use cases like that? Edit boxes, buttons, scroll views, tables, checkbox/radio buttons, context menus, consistent native selection and clipboard support, etc. are table stakes for desktop apps.

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nu11ptr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, running just gpui is kinda like writing a react app without a component library. It is going to be on you to implement all your components.

All of those are handled. Run the "story" app. It is very impressive IMO.

Components list: https://longbridge.github.io/gpui-component/docs/components/

	▲	the__alchemist 36 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm not sure about that analogy: HTML provides the basic components atombender laments are missing from GPUI.
	▲	atombender 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Thank you, that looks very promising indeed.