I am familiar with the current PC and GPU architectures.

IO is a non issue. Even a massive file can be trivially memory mapped and parsed without much hassle, and in the case of a text editor you’d have to deal with IO only when opening or saving said file, not during rendering.

As for the rendering side, again, the amount of memory you’d have to transfer between RAM and VRAM would be minimal. The issue is latency, not speed, but that can be mitigated though asynchonous transfer operations, so if done properly stutters are unlikely.

Rendering monospaced fonts (with decorators and control characters) at thousands of frames a second nowadays is computationally trivial, take a look at refterm for an example. I suspect non-monospaced fonts would require more effort, but it’s doable.

As I said at the beginning, it’s not impossible, just a pain. But so is font rendering in general honestly :/

I don’t see why you’d have to copy all that much. Depending on the rendering architecture, once all the glyphs are there you’d only need to send the relevant text data to be rendered. I don’t see that being much of a problem even when using SDFs. It’s an extremely small amount of data by today’s standards and it can be updated on demand, but even if it couldn’t it would still be extremely fast to send over every frame. If games do it, so can text editors. Real time text rendering on the GPU is a fairly common practice nowadays, unfortunately not in most GUI applications…

Terminals applications are, by definition, not smooth. You can’t have smooth scrolling, or anything else really, with a text grid.

Because it’s a pain, there’s not much more to it really…

I’m running it on Wayland + Nvidia (god help me) and it works great, no crashes whatsoever. No idea what’s going on on your end. I haven’t tried using any custom keybindings or the command palette, so I’m not sure if those work.

I’m using it on Windows, works fine for the most part. Compiling it takes ages and >16GB of RAM though :/

I haven’t experienced any stability issues or crashes as of yet, but some of the extensions don’t work.

All in all it’s a great start imo, but it definitely needs some work

Yup! Unfortunately they’re a bit too warm to do that in the summer :/

Trans man: F -> M
Trans woman: M -> F

As long as you’re willing to learn and do your best no one will fault you for getting confused sometimes don’t worry :3

I still don’t understand what it is they find so complicated

As if it never does it by itself without asking you first