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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 sn
by 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 agoBroken 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 agoEvery 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 agoChakra 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).