Immediate mode in Microsoft’s new Edit TUI

Immediate mode in Microsoft’s new Edit TUI Microsoft released a new open source code editor. Instead of being a complex, mega-dependency Electron app, it’s a Rust terminal-user-interface with minimal dependencies. The essay at the top of their TUI source code is fantastic by itself: github.com/microsoft/edit/blob/bf5178b4...11f9aa7130a5c834d1e3ce07649/src/tui.rs An immediate mode UI framework for terminals. Why immediate mode? This uses an “immediate mode” design, similar to ImGui . The reason for