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My gut wants to agree but then I see things like VSCode that shows it can be done with discipline and proper engineering. I also don't think you'd see nearly t

My gut wants to agree but then I see things like VSCode that shows it can be done with discipline and proper engineering. I also don't think you'd see nearly the level of extensions and language support if they didn't go with an electron based solution.

Amezarak 9y ago
I like VS Code and I don't want to crap on it, but I frequently experience massive UI lag on Windows - i.e., I start typing and the letters show up five seconds later. I think maybe it's related to source control? The same laptop runs Visual Studio fine.
- cwbrandsma 9y ago
  oh heck, I get that in Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and XCode. Not saying I'm in love with electron apps, but they have their place. (I once wrote a trivial app using Adobe Air, also consumed hundreds of megs of ran, all the same issues as Electron...it just seems like the nature of the beast)
- kej 9y ago
  Out of curiosity, do you get this regardless of file type? I've noticed something similar but only in Python files, and I had assumed I had misconfigured my setup somehow. Just curious if your experience was similar.
  - Amezarak 9y ago
    I see it in text files and Rust code, which are the only ones I've edited so far in VSC.
- Matthias247 9y ago
  Do you have any kind of anti-virus tool running? I experienced several slowdowns for autocompletion in VSCode, which turned away once Avira was deactivated. I think VsCode (and especially some plugins like the language services) are working with lots of files in the background, which got slowed down due to the filtering of these tools.
adrianN 9y ago
The editor that became known for consuming nontrivial amounts of CPU for blinking the cursor, something computers could do since they replaced paper tapes with screens.
- roryisok 9y ago
  That issue was limited to mac, as far as I know
- BoorishBears 9y ago
  *became known to you for a big that consumed nontrivial amounts of CPU - Many people know VS Code before that - It was a bug, not something inherent to Electron
coldtea 9y ago
>My gut wants to agree but then I see things like VSCode that shows it can be done with discipline and proper engineering. VSCode just makes an tolerably-fast Electron app. Still doesn't solve the CPU usage, battery hungrinees, and memory hoginess of the platform.

Amezarak 9y ago

I like VS Code and I don't want to crap on it, but I frequently experience massive UI lag on Windows - i.e., I start typing and the letters show up five seconds later. I think maybe it's related to source control? The same laptop runs Visual Studio fine.

cwbrandsma 9y ago
oh heck, I get that in Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and XCode. Not saying I'm in love with electron apps, but they have their place. (I once wrote a trivial app using Adobe Air, also consumed hundreds of megs of ran, all the same issues as Electron...it just seems like the nature of the beast)
kej 9y ago
Out of curiosity, do you get this regardless of file type? I've noticed something similar but only in Python files, and I had assumed I had misconfigured my setup somehow. Just curious if your experience was similar.
- Amezarak 9y ago
  I see it in text files and Rust code, which are the only ones I've edited so far in VSC.
Matthias247 9y ago
Do you have any kind of anti-virus tool running? I experienced several slowdowns for autocompletion in VSCode, which turned away once Avira was deactivated. I think VsCode (and especially some plugins like the language services) are working with lots of files in the background, which got slowed down due to the filtering of these tools.

adrianN 9y ago

The editor that became known for consuming nontrivial amounts of CPU for blinking the cursor, something computers could do since they replaced paper tapes with screens.

roryisok 9y ago
That issue was limited to mac, as far as I know
BoorishBears 9y ago
*became known to you for a big that consumed nontrivial amounts of CPU - Many people know VS Code before that - It was a bug, not something inherent to Electron

coldtea 9y ago

>My gut wants to agree but then I see things like VSCode that shows it can be done with discipline and proper engineering. VSCode just makes an tolerably-fast Electron app. Still doesn't solve the CPU usage, battery hungrinees, and memory hoginess of the platform.