3 ms·
Hacker News macro: Author: I wrote something for people who care more about features than performance. People who care more about performance than features: I
by rambl3r 9y ago
Hacker News macro:
Author: I wrote something for people who care more about features than performance.
People who care more about performance than features: I am personally offended that you created this.
- jd3 9y agotyping latency (evident in all electron programs) is a deal breaker tbh - this becomes especially true for something like a term emulator
- CptBland 9y agoI don't notice any typing latency on Slack and I'm usually pretty sensitive to it. That said, Atom with a bunch of plugins can chug a little.
- AndrewCHM 9y agoI don't notice any notable latency in discord, vscode, etc But I do notice latency in hyper.js, and it just makes it feel very "dull", and that's what I think a lot of people know of electron terminals plus the competition from native apps is a bit absurd in terms of performance, with most of the serious ones either rendering asap or on the next frame (when vsync'd)
- sime2009 9y agoand why would your experience of one terminal app based on Electron apply to all other terminal apps based on Electron? You even say that you don't notice latency in VSCode. A text editor and a terminal have similar problems to solve.
- AndrewCHM 9y agoNever said it applied to all electron terminals I would of tested this one, but no windows build, and I'm not using a linux install atm editors don't roundtrip to a separate application through multiple buffers (bash, zsh, fish, or whatever) to decide if they need to show a color or letter or nothing