Hacker News Reader

The problem is that Zed has understandably and transparently abandoned supporting GPUI as an open source endeavour except to the extent contributions align with its business mission.

View on HN

I remember when that came out, but I'm not sure I understand the concern. They use GPUI, so therefore they MUST keep it working and supportable, even if updating it isn't their current priority. Or are you saying they have a closed source fork now?

Actually, this story is literally them changing their renderer on linux, so they are maintaining it.

> except to the extent contributions align with its business mission

Isn't that every single open source project that is tied to a commercial entity?

I don't know what the message means exactly, but I can't plan to build on GPUI with it out there, especially when crates that don't carry that caveat are suffering from being under-resourced.

IMO, as long as Zed uses it, we are safe. If it doesn't, we aren't. I'm keeping it that simple.

They haven't. They are just heads down on other work. It wouldn't make sense for them to abandon it - they have no alternative. What that message was about was supporting _community_ prs and development of gpui.

Focus ebbs and flows at Zed, they'll be back on it before long.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com