Building Termy X: putting an X client inside a GPU terminal with Rust and GPUI

I spend my day in a terminal, and I was tired of alt-tabbing to X. So I forked Termy, an MIT-licensed Rust/GPUI terminal, and docked an X panel beside the shell. Termy X has a timeline, profile lookup, trends, research, and compose with post/reply/quote, plus likes and follows. This post covers what it took to keep it fast and impossible to hang. That means mimalloc, zero-copy serde with borrowed…

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