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  • How OS

    Pretty much Qt. You can learn how different OSes have different way.

    However, modern GUI programming is happening on the web and mobile phones. React is popular, but it’s too high level and their XML-based approach is horrifically designed. Swift UI is nice, but it’s Apple-only. Flutter is a good middle ground, but its Desktop capability is limited. You’re going to shoot on your own foot several times.







  • At this point I’m not expert enough to explain more details. You can check font renderers.

    Below is what’s in my mind but it’s just a guess.

    In typical PC architectures you have IO between the storage and the RAM, and then there’s the copying from the RAM to the VRAM, and editors maybe also want copying from the VRAM to RAM for decoration purposes etc.