The capital X is the English convention for a wildcard or variable; a social network using it in its rebranding shouldn't change the rules of the language :D. If Snapchat changes its name to "none," should the title change? :)
To avoid UI freezes, separate event processing from rendering (for example). It's very common to see the interface freeze while a complex command is running.
There's not much of a secret here; I used ffmpeg to pre-download the video—there's... no actual streaming. When you select a video, it downloads in parallel and starts playing. Sorry to disappoint you :)
There's a lot to discuss here, a very interesting comment. I wouldn't want to talk too much publicly about certain technical elements, and because I don't want to encourage solutions decided by LLMs, however the Skia/Cairo-GL angle is interesting but would be a heavy dependency and does not help Linux, where the same gfxterm.c policy drives the OpenGL backend. The vtable abstraction was specifically designed so the rendering logic is written once and the platform just supplies the draw primitives.
Thank you! A small correction on framing though: the goal is not a fork but a patch upstream. The backend is structured precisely to minimize the diff against Emacs mainline. The "nvim moment" comparison is flattering but I would rather this be the patch that makes the FSF argument easier to win than the one that splits the community. That said, your list of modernization items is a fair read of the backlog.
Good news on the Wayland front: there is already a working branch (wayland-pgtk-backend) that adds a PGTK binding on top of the same EGL/GLES driver, pending merge to main. If you want to try it before that, the branch is available on the repo.
Yes, of course, I worked with the develop version until at a certain point I decided to downgrade to the stable versions. I'll be releasing more versions later; I'm still focused on fixing minor issues in Linux.
This is for the GUI build of Emacs, not the terminal (tty) version. Emacs has had a native GUI renderer since the 90s, on macOS it uses Cocoa/NS, on Linux it uses GTK or raw X11. This project replaces that CPU-based drawing pipeline with a GPU backend: Metal on macOS and OpenGL/EGL on Linux. The tty build is unaffected.
If you've reached that conclusion, I'm truly proud of my writing technique. I'm sorry to say, though, that your instincts are failing you this time. I write my articles by hand over several days, although it's true that I do consult AI to improve my style, expressions, find synonyms, create tables, and correct spelling mistakes. Thank you for your comment!
I just updated it with different concurrent scenarios (up to 50). I invite you to review the article. PS: I'd love to scale to thousands of users, but I don't have the hardware for it.