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Comment by goranmoomin | Hacker News Reader

Last time I tried this, the fully-custom rendering with all of the custom UI, and the horrible text rendering forced me to not use the app. Honestly, using the app shows a lot on how much the Rust GUI scene is not a matured state. This is beyond the level of Electron, everything feels... just so unnatural (in a way that it makes Electron feel lovely).

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What do you find wrong with the text rendering? I'm curious because I'm picky about that and have begrudgingly stuck with the macos terminal because despite its other flaws text looks good. I'm not using warp daily but I have it installed and I don't notice the other text problems terminals tend to have.

Kitty has very good text rendering in my experience

Oh yeah I also found that to be the case. I had trouble getting some key combos working how I wanted though and didn't feel like sinking more time into learning the config language right then. Been meaning to go back and get it set up correctly though, definitely seemed like a good fit for me if I did it properly.

> and the horrible text rendering forced me to not use the app

agreed on this - I have a large display (32" 6K) and I like using this to highlight the aesthetics of type rather than sheer information density.

It grinds on my OCD to see only the top half of a cursor/text in the text input box, as I regularly see with Warp.

Hey there, thanks for feedback. We built our own UI framework in Rust to build Warp, and there were some initial rendering quirks--especially with rendering text on low resolution monitors.

I'd love to hear more about the rendering issues you've faced when using Warp so we can fix them!

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