I’m experimenting with a game and rather than deal with platform specific graphics I’m just targeting wasm and webgl and plan to embed my game in a browser runtime.

It feels less terrible than the mess that is linking platform specific logic and code.

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[–] httperror418@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

But I'll build an electron app, and have support for Linux /s

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Use Qt or some similar framework to develop your desktop apps, or use SDL or similar middleware if you want your own and want portability very quickly. I even managed to write my own SDL replacement.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (22 children)

And yet, the most popular, and desired (and one of the most admired) IDEs that developers use all day, everyday, is built using Electron:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology/#2-integrated-development-environment

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago

Why is Spacemacs listed separately to Emacs when it's just a fancy Emacs' config?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm keeping an eye on Zed: https://zed.dev/

Yeah, AI, whatever. It's written in Rust and looks pretty great.

[–] MicrondeMMMMMMM@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah you can turn off the AI it's not mandatory, besides, it's really fast, has built in support for LSP's , custom themes which are easy to make, vim mode out of the box, extensions, and some GitHub functionalities.

I was using Kate because electron is too much of a hog on my system and zed works insanely well (it's slightly slower than Kate though but not very important)

I wish you could turn off the automatic downloads on zed though (or have a prompt to confirm the download) but it's really shaping up to be a great text editor.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm currently mid-migration from Windows to Linux, so I have to wait until the Windows release or until I finish migrating (I'm not really up for building a beta at this point), but I'm very excited.

[–] MicrondeMMMMMMM@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

It's not done, but I've replaced VSCode and haven't felt the need to come back, moreover If I were to go back I'd miss Zed because it's just that good.

Like it feels so light and fast 🤤

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[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Eh, not that bad

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