I think it's important to keep drawing the distinction, but you're right, the thread didn't really point out the difference and that's what's missing in the con

I think it's important to keep drawing the distinction, but you're right, the thread didn't really point out the difference and that's what's missing in the conversation. I think it's important to remind everyone of the world we used to live in where apps were native to the platform they ran on and were performant and power efficient. I think that's even more important than ever to remember now. That said, somehow Microsoft has pulled off a miracle with VS Code as it's reasonably efficient and performant given the tech stack it's implemented on top of. I think a lot of this has to do with Microsoft being a company that established itself in OS and native application development for Windows. They have an ethic of performance whereas GitHub may not have had that at the time that Atom came on the scene.