From the Zed Blog: An update on what the Zed for Windows team has been doing in July and August.

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Zed's Windows port has been in development by a four-person team for six weeks, tackling platform-specific challenges including creating a DirectX 11 rendering backend to replace Vulkan for better compatibility, reimplementing glyph rasterization for debugging support, optimizing GPU memory usage through improved MSAA handling, developing a Windows-compatible auto-updater system, and implementing crash reporting with minidump files. The team is now focusing on key bindings, SSH remoting, WSL support, extensions compatibility, and performance optimization before the general release.

Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?! — Zed's Blog

Reimplementing Glyph Rasterization in the Name of Debuggability

<p>I don’t know much about rendering technologies, but wasn’t Vulkan supposed to be compatible with all platform? And in a more efficient way than others?</p>


<p>I honestly forgot this even exists… at this point it feels like they’re making up drama for the sake of marketing instead of actually building a decent product…</p>
