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It's 2019 and not a single mention of which OS this runs on. I had to download it to find out it's for Windows. Might want to make a note of that somewhere.
by stephenr 8y ago
It's 2019 and not a single mention of which OS this runs on. I had to download it to find out it's for Windows.
Might want to make a note of that somewhere.
- celinelee 8y agoThat's a very good point. Thank you for the comment! I'll mention it to my team and have that issue fixed. :) We are also currently beta testing a cross-platform IDE, so please stay tuned!
- stephenr 8y agoCan you give some info about the cross platform version - specifically the UI toolkit it uses? i.e. it is Java, QT, Electron, platform-specific UI with a C/C++ core, etc?
- celinelee 8y agoI'd be delighted to! We're using Electron, React and TypeScript. You can check out our development team's blog here for more information: - Cross-Platform Application Design with Electron, React, and gRPC (https://medium.com/p/c13a429b5346/ https://medium.com/p/c13a429b5346/) - Why Did We Choose React and TypeScript for QueryPie? (https://medium.com/p/56c9b2ab352 https://medium.com/p/56c9b2ab352)
- stephenr 8y agoYou lost me at Electron. Good luck, but I'm not your target market.
- king_magic 8y agoSame. I’ll stick with SSMS.
- slenk 8y agoWhy is there all this hate for Electron here?
- stephenr 8y agoBecause it's terrible.
- slenk 8y agoBut why is it terrible? Just because it's a bulky, but cross-platform solution?
- stephenr 8y agoIt uses ridiculous amounts of resources, introduces security issues (when you remove a bunch of the sandboxing a browser does, but then still execute content that comes from the web, bad things are gonna happen), and generally the apps don't conform to any desktop norms for any platform.
- chmod775 8y agoThis is supposed to be a full-fledged IDE. Those tend to be resource hungry anyways. Plus the interface is looking pretty straightforward and native to me - no bootstrap-ish/whatever website-looking-thing shenanigans disguised as a native application.
- purple-again 8y agoThis is Hacker News so you will get lots of people chiming in to remind you they won’t use your project because it’s Electron. The people like me usually don’t say anything but I know how disheartening it can be to only receive negativity so I’m going to chime in. I’m currently running Slack and Discord and am happy with both desktop applications. I would absolute consider using any future electron based applications in the future.
- CaptainHiggins 8y agoI think VS Code is the gold standard for Electron. Slack, not so much. On my work laptop, it uses 800mb over 5 processes, and is easily 5x slower to paste a screenshot into than Teams.
- thejohnconway 8y agoI wish VS Code wasn’t Electron. It’s noticeably laggier that native editors, and its performance under load is a lot worse.
- pknopf 8y agoThe question is, could any of the native editors keep the pace of new features/improvements?
- TeMPOraL 8y agoSure, why not? It's not like most of the features are strongly tied to VS Code being a browser app. Implemented against a different platform they'd probably look different. Maybe a bit less shiny, but likely a bit more performant.
- pknopf 8y ago> Sure, why not? I was being facetious. I'm not a fan of electron either, but when it comes to just HTML/CSS/JS, nothing beats it in developer productivity. The business logic is (of course) a sep discussion. By the way, I have professional experience in HTML/JS/CSS/WPF/WinForms/Qt/Android/UIKit.
- jvagner 8y agoScreenshots.
- newsoul2019 8y agoWindows? Does anyone use that anymore?