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This changes the implementation of the X11 client to use `mio`, as a
polling mechanism, and a custom run loop instead of `calloop` and its
callback-based approach.
We're doing this for one big reason: more control over how we handle
events.
With `calloop` we don't have any control over which events are processed
when and how long they're processes for. For example: we could be
blasted with 150 input events from X11 and miss a frame while processing
them, but instead of then drawing a new frame, calloop could decide to
work off the runnables that were generated from application-level code,
which would then again cause us to be behind.
We kinda worked around some of that in
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/12839 but the problem still
persists.
So what we're doing here is to use `mio` as a polling-mechanism. `mio`
notifies us if there are X11 on the XCB connection socket to be
processed. We also use its timeout mechanism to make sure that we don't
wait for events when we should render frames.
On top of `mio` we now have a custom run loop that allows us to decide
how much time to spend on what — input events, rendering windows, XDG
events, runnables — and in what order we work things off.
This custom run loop is consciously "dumb": we render all windows at the
highest frame rate right now, because we want to keep things predictable
for now while we test this approach more. We can then always switch to
more granular timings. But considering that our loop runs and checks for
windows to be redrawn whenever there's an event, this is more an
optimization than a requirement.
One reason for why we're doing this for X11 but not for Wayland is due
to how peculiar X11's event handling is: it's asynchronous and by
default X11 generates synthetic events when a key is held down. That can
lead to us being flooded with input events if someone keeps a key
pressed.
So another optimization that's in here is inspired by [GLFW's X11 input
handling](
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Zed
Welcome to Zed, a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Installation
You can download Zed today for macOS (v10.15+).
Support for additional platforms is on our roadmap:
- Linux (tracking issue)
- Windows (tracking issue)
- Web (tracking issue)
For macOS users, you can also install Zed using Homebrew:
brew install --cask zed
Alternatively, to install the Preview release:
brew install --cask zed@preview
Developing Zed
- Building Zed for macOS
- Building Zed for Linux
- Building Zed for Windows
- Running Collaboration Locally
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for ways you can contribute to Zed.
Also... we're hiring! Check out our jobs page for open roles.
Licensing
License information for third party dependencies must be correctly provided for CI to pass.
We use cargo-about to automatically comply with open source licenses. If CI is failing, check the following:
- Is it showing a
no license specifiederror for a crate you've created? If so, addpublish = falseunder[package]in your crate's Cargo.toml. - Is the error
failed to satisfy license requirementsfor a dependency? If so, first determine what license the project has and whether this system is sufficient to comply with this license's requirements. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer. Once you've verified that this system is acceptable add the license's SPDX identifier to theacceptedarray inscript/licenses/zed-licenses.toml. - Is
cargo-aboutunable to find the license for a dependency? If so, add a clarification field at the end ofscript/licenses/zed-licenses.toml, as specified in the cargo-about book.