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> Why build complicated native applications when a thinly wrapped SPA in Electron will be indistinguishable to the customer? I just fired up Atom and various v
by tommorris 10y ago
> Why build complicated native applications when a thinly wrapped SPA in Electron will be indistinguishable to the customer?
I just fired up Atom and various vim versions.
Atom uses 225.8 MB of RAM without any documents open.
MacVim uses 39.8 MB without any documents open.
Console vim uses 23.3 MB.
Console neovim uses 10.0 MB.
25x memory usage differences seem pretty distinguishable to me, especially in an application used to read and write plain text.
- brilliantcode 10y agoAtom is a full IDE rendered on the desktop. Vim is a terminal based IDE. The sky is blue.
- bdcravens 10y agoA closer analog to Atom is Sublime. It uses less than 50MB of RAM, and starts faster than Atom. (Myself, I've found VS Code to be a good compromise in the middle)