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I've switched from Sublime Text 3 (native) to VSCode (Electron) and I couldn't be happier. If I didn't know it's electron based I wouldn't have been able to tel

by pluma 10y ago

I've switched from Sublime Text 3 (native) to VSCode (Electron) and I couldn't be happier. If I didn't know it's electron based I wouldn't have been able to tell as a user. YMMV so don't generalise.

kungtotte 10y ago
When did you switch? Atom was damned near unusable around 1.0, and VSCode was only a little better. The difference to now is night and day.
- infogulch 10y ago
  Atom and VSCode are in different leagues with respect to performance, and the difference is growing with time. If you think the reason that Atom is slow is because of Electron, VSCode is the counterexample.
  - ori_b 10y ago
    If VSCode isn't slow because of electron, what's the reason it's slow?
    - pluma 10y ago
      VSCode isn't slow. Atom is slow. Since both are written with electron the difference must obviously be the actual implementation, not the platform itself. Keep in mind VSCode was written by Microsoft who have decades of experience writing IDEs and text editors, whereas Atom was written by GitHub who are mostly working on the GitHub product.
      - ori_b 10y ago
        > VSCode isn't slow. Atom is slow. Could have fooled me.
        iterateandgit 10y ago
        VScode runs like a dream on my hexacore/8GB/SSD desktop, but brings my atom/2GB/32GBeMMC based Asus Eeebook X205TA to its knees. Native programs for low power systems seems sound practice to me.
- pluma 10y ago
  I first tried switching to Atom around 1.0 and it was a horrible mess. I just switched to VSCode last month and it's been as nice to use as ST3 (actually even nicer because ST3 didn't have any code intelligence). I've also used IntelliJ (or rather WebStorm) several times over the years and it always felt too sluggish and obnoxious. For the record: I'm on Linux and have 32 gigs of RAM. So maybe I have lower standards for memory use and performance.
rayiner 10y ago
It's halves my battery life compared to Emacs or BBEdit.
- fknop 10y ago
  If your battery is more important, just stick to Emacs. What machine are you using ? I have a 2 year old thinkpad, it's still 10h+ in full brightness, vscode, compiling, etc. And it's the screen brightness that consumes the most battery. It used to do 20h, but the main battery is external and can be replaced so it's a good thing. I would really recommand thinkpads to everyone instead of going for macbooks for example.
- pluma 10y ago
  VSCode doesn't compete with emacs and vim. VSCode competes with Sublime Text and Atom. Maybe even with WebStorm on the more full-featured end and Notepad++ on the leaner end. I'm not even sure whether you're trolling. BBEdit provides a tiny subset of the features VSCode offers. VSCode is not a text editor, it's halfway between a text editor and a traditional IDE.

by pluma 10y ago

I've switched from Sublime Text 3 (native) to VSCode (Electron) and I couldn't be happier. If I didn't know it's electron based I wouldn't have been able to tell as a user. YMMV so don't generalise.

kungtotte 10y ago

When did you switch? Atom was damned near unusable around 1.0, and VSCode was only a little better. The difference to now is night and day.

infogulch 10y ago
Atom and VSCode are in different leagues with respect to performance, and the difference is growing with time. If you think the reason that Atom is slow is because of Electron, VSCode is the counterexample.
- ori_b 10y ago
  If VSCode isn't slow because of electron, what's the reason it's slow?
  - pluma 10y ago
    VSCode isn't slow. Atom is slow. Since both are written with electron the difference must obviously be the actual implementation, not the platform itself. Keep in mind VSCode was written by Microsoft who have decades of experience writing IDEs and text editors, whereas Atom was written by GitHub who are mostly working on the GitHub product.
    - ori_b 10y ago
      > VSCode isn't slow. Atom is slow. Could have fooled me.
      - iterateandgit 10y ago
        VScode runs like a dream on my hexacore/8GB/SSD desktop, but brings my atom/2GB/32GBeMMC based Asus Eeebook X205TA to its knees. Native programs for low power systems seems sound practice to me.
pluma 10y ago
I first tried switching to Atom around 1.0 and it was a horrible mess. I just switched to VSCode last month and it's been as nice to use as ST3 (actually even nicer because ST3 didn't have any code intelligence). I've also used IntelliJ (or rather WebStorm) several times over the years and it always felt too sluggish and obnoxious. For the record: I'm on Linux and have 32 gigs of RAM. So maybe I have lower standards for memory use and performance.

rayiner 10y ago

It's halves my battery life compared to Emacs or BBEdit.

fknop 10y ago
If your battery is more important, just stick to Emacs. What machine are you using ? I have a 2 year old thinkpad, it's still 10h+ in full brightness, vscode, compiling, etc. And it's the screen brightness that consumes the most battery. It used to do 20h, but the main battery is external and can be replaced so it's a good thing. I would really recommand thinkpads to everyone instead of going for macbooks for example.
pluma 10y ago
VSCode doesn't compete with emacs and vim. VSCode competes with Sublime Text and Atom. Maybe even with WebStorm on the more full-featured end and Notepad++ on the leaner end. I'm not even sure whether you're trolling. BBEdit provides a tiny subset of the features VSCode offers. VSCode is not a text editor, it's halfway between a text editor and a traditional IDE.