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I had the same experience, but from Atom to VSCode. There was an even more direct "standing on shoulders" effect there. I didn't want to switch to the huge corp

by _bxg1 8y ago

I had the same experience, but from Atom to VSCode. There was an even more direct "standing on shoulders" effect there. I didn't want to switch to the huge corporation that just copied the project with the actual original idea. But VSCode is just so... designed. Everything just works, and brilliantly. I don't understand how they got an Electron app to be so fast. Say what you will about Microsoft, they sure know how to make IDEs.

_coveredInBees 8y ago
I used Atom for a while, and I recall regular instances of the entire IDE freezing for 10+ seconds for no good reason when I had a few files open. At the time (and to some extend even today), everyone just chalked this up to "Electron is terrible". But MS came along with VSCode to show how a lot of the "issues" with Electron were actually just issues surrounding bad code / software design that were bogging down apps. Like you, I felt a bit sad to switch from Atom, but the difference in quality was massive. I guess that's the difference between having a bunch of smart people who have developed enterprise software for a while working on an Electron App, vs. younger, equally smart folks working on an app without that wealth of experience to draw on for developing a complex application.