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Comment on: Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
In my experience immediate mode guis almost always ignore internationalization and accessibility.The thing you get by using an OS widget and putting a string in it is that the OS can interact with the string. It can read it out load, translate it, fill it in with a password, look it up in a dictionary, edit it right to left, handle input method editors whose hot keys are in conflict with app doing its own editing, etc…There’s a reason why the most popular ImGUIs are targeted at game dev tools and in game dev uis and not end user uisYou could potentially make an Immediate mode gui that wrapped