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> This suggests that it would help to have better getting-started guides for vim, and for using it with RLS in particular. Oh man yeah I'm using vim to play ar

> This suggests that it would help to have better getting-started guides for vim, and for using it with RLS in particular. Oh man yeah I'm using vim to play around with Rust, would like to see a tutorial in term of usage of the plugins. Like a tutorial with vim and the guess number example would be nice while using the vim plugins. Idea whatever and VScode is meh. VScode is on the cloud iirc meeeeh.

gcp 9y ago
VScode is on the cloud iirc meeeeh It's based on Electron/Chromium and uses JS for extensions, but it's a local program in every other way. It's also fairly snappy, maybe much more so than the usual Electron app. It does have the usual broken font rendering on Windows, as does everything that is derived from Chrome. But that's no an issue on Linux or macOS.
- pitaj 9y ago
  Broken font rendering? I've never had that happen in VSCode or any Electron application. What does it look like? Maybe I've just missed it.
  - gcp 9y ago
    Every Chrome derived application, including everything Electron, has substantially degraded font rendering compared to native apps on Windows. Just load the same text with the same fonts and look side by side. Best way to describe it would be that the fonts are fuzzier and have less well defined outlines. Must be some kind of hinting + subpixel-AA issue, or Chrome not respecting the system ClearType settings, or whatever. The bug has been there for ages. I wouldn't care if Chrome was the only thing suffering from it, since you can use another browser, but the appearance of good Electron apps like VSCode has made it very painful. Maybe someday Microsoft will port VSCode to Chakra.
    - pitaj 9y ago
      Chakra is only the JS runtime of the Edge browser IIRC. So they'd have to open-source all of Edge in order to port VS Code to it instead (if they wanted to keep everything open source).

gcp 9y ago

VScode is on the cloud iirc meeeeh It's based on Electron/Chromium and uses JS for extensions, but it's a local program in every other way. It's also fairly snappy, maybe much more so than the usual Electron app. It does have the usual broken font rendering on Windows, as does everything that is derived from Chrome. But that's no an issue on Linux or macOS.

pitaj 9y ago
Broken font rendering? I've never had that happen in VSCode or any Electron application. What does it look like? Maybe I've just missed it.
- gcp 9y ago
  Every Chrome derived application, including everything Electron, has substantially degraded font rendering compared to native apps on Windows. Just load the same text with the same fonts and look side by side. Best way to describe it would be that the fonts are fuzzier and have less well defined outlines. Must be some kind of hinting + subpixel-AA issue, or Chrome not respecting the system ClearType settings, or whatever. The bug has been there for ages. I wouldn't care if Chrome was the only thing suffering from it, since you can use another browser, but the appearance of good Electron apps like VSCode has made it very painful. Maybe someday Microsoft will port VSCode to Chakra.
  - pitaj 9y ago
    Chakra is only the JS runtime of the Edge browser IIRC. So they'd have to open-source all of Edge in order to port VS Code to it instead (if they wanted to keep everything open source).