Zed also stopped GPUI (their GPU accelerated Rust UI framework) development for now, sadly.

> Hey y'all, GPUI develoment is getting some major brakes put on it. We gotta focus on some business relevant work in 2026, and so I'm going to be pushing off anything that isn't directly related to Zed's use case from now on. However, Nate, former employee #1 at Zed, has started a little side repo that people can keep iterating on if they're interested: https://github.com/gpui-ce/gpui-ce. I'm also a maintainer on that one, and would like to try to help maintain it off of work hours. But I'm not sure how much I'll be able to commit to this

https://discord.com/channels/869392257814519848/144044062864...

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laweijfmvo 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> We gotta focus on some business relevant work in 2026

Remember that post announcing the millions of VC capital they raised? This is the result

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satvikpendem 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Without such venture capital, I doubt GPUI, at least to the level of complexity it has today rather than being a toy project, would have even existed. It costs money to develop open source sustainably.

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koito17 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

GPUI development predates Sequoia's funding by about two years.

	▲	satvikpendem 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Companies start with founders funding themselves through savings and friends and family rounds before institutional investors are usually even interested. But make no mistake, they start it as a commercial venture, otherwise they wouldn't have taken VC in the first place, nevermind that VCs wouldn't have funded it if not for their pitch on how it could become a billion dollar company. And since Sequoia? It is primarily the Zed team working full time on it, which costs money.

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kitsune1 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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atonse an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does this mean they’re struggling financially?

Yet more disruption caused by coding agents, I’m sure. We saw it quite visibly with Tailwind, now I can see if code editors are maybe struggling too, especially something like Zed which was probably still used mostly by early adopter type People, who have early adopted TUI coding agents instead.

I only use cursor and zed to browse code now.

	▲	stonogo 10 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't think it means they're struggling financially. I think it means they're not steering the ship alone any more, and are responsible to others. That's how accepting investment money generally works.
	▲	throwaway613746 35 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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nu11ptr 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

While unfortunate, to me this just says any user requested features aren't going to get merged anytime soon. As is, it already runs on windows/linux/mac, and will need to do so maturely for Zed to function. Therefore, to me, this isn't that big of a deal, and when they need things like web support (on their roadmap), they will then add that.

I'm curious... does anyone have any PRs or features that they feel need merging in order to use GPUI in their own projects? (other than web support)

	▲	satvikpendem 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I recently saw a PR where the author implemented shaders but it was closed by the maintainers as the feature wasn't needed by Zed the editor.

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righthand 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Iced.rs is probably the better UI library anyways in the long run as it’s backed by a major hardware vendor.

https://iced.rs

	▲	tribaal 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not contesting your claim, but would you mind sharing what major hardware vendor you mean? I love iced and wrote a decent amount of code using it, but in my mind the biggest sponsor is system76 - and as awesome as they are they aren’t a major vendor yet :)
	▲	satvikpendem 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm partial to Dioxus with their native renderer coming up, it should work cross-platform on mobile, web, desktop like Flutter (except web is actually HTML and CSS, not canvas) rather than only desktop which is what most Rust GUI frameworks are targeting. https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz