It's open source, and they already said they were Mac only because they used Metal for rendering. It's not suspicious for devs to use what they're most familiar with.

While I generally agree with your skeptical attitude toward this, I think the fact that they were targeting Apple's Metal graphics API to built the most performant possible IDE makes sense. You can't just snap your fingers and have a Linux graphical stack start working with your software.

I think the reason they targeted macOS first is probably because many of the dev team uses Macs.

As a Linux user, I'll happily wait for software like this to get ported to native Linux APIs so we get performant text editors instead of more Electron crap.

They start with Mac clients because those devs use Macs.

• which one as well? it's the first project I know of that starts on mac
• how do you get to that? That would be funny.

They have not made a final decision on packaging it, in fact it's not even distributed at the moment, you need to compile it yourself. From what I've seen they will very likely package it as flatpak when it's out of alpha/beta

Or just install with cargo, have it run unrestricted and still work everywhere. I dont think rust apps need to be flatpakked

That was a hypothetical illustrating the amount of choices one had to make to port to Linux. So far their decision is to just release a tarball.

Distrobox is not a good solution. But when there is an APT package, packagers can easily use their binary and create RPMs etc.