The GLFW build has grown farther and farther in feature parity with GTK
on Linux. And on macOS, the GLFW build has been unstable (crashes) for
months.
I still find the GLFW build useful for testing some core terminal work,
but it is increasingly user-hostile in case someone just downloads the
project and does a `zig build`.
I keep GLFW as up to date as I can, but the features that are missing
are due to fundamental limitations:
- GLFW has no tabs, splits, etc. because it has no UI elements.
I am not interested in painting UI widgets from scratch.
- GLFW cannot support keyboard layouts robustly because it has no
hooks to detect keyboard layouts or functions to get keymaps.
- GLFW cannot support the Kitty keyboard protocol because the
key/char API is too high level and it provides no low-level
alternatives.
- GLFW crashes on macOS under certain scenarios (this is my problem).
I'm not interested in fixing it because the AppKit-based build
is highly recommended.
To build or run the GLFW build you must now explicitly pass in
`-Dapp-runtime=glfw` to `zig build`.
