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iamnbutlertoday at 1:37 AM0 repliesview on HN

Cool, I'll take a look.

gpui will support web eventually - we always planned it, and i've tinkered with some folks on the team on it a bit. The problem is the crate needs to split into core/web/native (and maybe mobile?) as web needs a new executor and native has a number of deps that won't play nice with wasm...

someone did get a very claude-driven demo of gpui on the web up (you can find it in the discord somewhere.)

I would love that too though, a true cross platform solution.

> How was it like working at Zed? Any reason for leaving?

Working at Zed was great. I was employee #4 (#1 after the founders) - it was fun, often hard - Nathan & co helped me learn Rust and I fell in love with it.

I wanted to do something pretty specific (tl;dr, basically skunkworks type work) which was the reason I left.

There are always pros and cons to every role, but I appreciate that Zed is building from the ground up. DeltaDB will be very exciting - we were sitting on our hands waiting for it for a lot of the really exciting things we wanted to do with Zed.

Having to take on investors is never awesome - but as much as I don't like it, I do doubt Zed would never have existed without them.

But yeah, getting paid to design and write rust UI every day was a blast.