I also have variants of light and dark for different lighting conditions at night and day (particularly glare).

In terms of responsiveness, it was an interesting compare and contrast from the Sun workstations vs. the PCs running GEOS. Less mouse jitter is one memory (especially in comparison to those old Ultrix machines).

I remember learning about self-modifying assembly in the low level drawing code from JimDF.

Geoworks was doing well until its sales deals got utterly hosed by the Microsoft monopoly power play. That started a cascade of direct and indirect problems from both a technology and business perspective.

We cross-developed from Sun workstations to x86 PCs and quality of x86 native tooling wasn't nearly as good. But eventually building on x86 was actually quite a bit faster.

They talk about things like having a plug-in type system in the future based on e.g. WASM but, as you're pointing out, their fundamental perspective is built around the simplistic notion of a control panel with fixed functionality that's primarily accessed via a bizarre set of keymaps. On this front, might as well stick with JetBrains.

Especially, since Zed does have a very clear distinction/dividing line of "completely functional local editor" == permissive open source vs. "all of the real-time & async collaboration features" == proprietary that is easy to explain.

Frankly, I would happily pay for great, fully supported, high-quality real-time collaboration for my teams.

Anyway, as you can see, not having any useful progress on this front instantly shuts down lots of people and there's many of us who won't even consider doing more than checking it out until this is done.

Would be great if it could generate static images of a diagram in e.g. SVG.

I have an additional touch pad that I use with the same keyboard on my desk.

One thing to note is that people with large hands and/or long finger lengths can find the fixed size hand wells too cramped.

Another thing to note is that they are loud.