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Non-native apps can be as performant as native ones. I imagine they checked alternatives to Electron and figured a native app would allow them to have better OS

Non-native apps can be as performant as native ones. I imagine they checked alternatives to Electron and figured a native app would allow them to have better OS integration.

buzzerbetrayed 7y ago
> Non-native apps can be as performant as native ones This may be true. However, Electron apps cannot be as performant as native apps can be, which seems to be what they are getting at.
- monocasa 7y ago
  Vscode does a pretty damn good job.
  - solarkraft 7y ago
    VSCode really stands out to me among Electron apps, which is why I would be really interested in a write up about what they are doing to get it so performant (I think Rust is a part of the answer). Of course you can write terribly performing code on all platforms, but certainly some make it easier and/or have their own performance requirements.
    - monocasa 7y ago
      Part of it I think is the super text heavy use case. Unlike slack for isntance that'll have N 30MB gifs (probably multiple copies of each too) in memory at any given point.
  - filleduchaos 7y ago
    And still doesn't come close.
    - monocasa 7y ago
      It's pretty damn close if you compare it to native apps with the same feature set.
    - st3fan 7y ago
      It has smoother scrolling than most native editors :-/
      - filleduchaos 7y ago
        Smoother scrolling than most native editors like?
  - dewey 7y ago
    Have you tried pasting a very long line or huge file into VSCode? I always have Sublime open for these cases where I need to look at a huge JSON file as VSCode just crashes or becomes unusable.
    - monocasa 7y ago
      I use it with 1.5M line files pretty regularly.
  - jamil7 7y ago
    And with all the resources of Microsoft behind it still can't compete with something like sublime on performance. I know it makes up for it in other areas like extensibility but I wouldn't describe VSCode as particularly performant.
- Vesuvium 7y ago
  I didn't say "may". I said they can because I took care to look at their benchmarks. https://szibele.com/memory-footprint-of-gui-toolkits/chart.svg https://szibele.com/memory-footprint-of-gui-toolkits/chart.s...

Non-native apps can be as performant as native ones. I imagine they checked alternatives to Electron and figured a native app would allow them to have better OS integration.

buzzerbetrayed 7y ago

> Non-native apps can be as performant as native ones This may be true. However, Electron apps cannot be as performant as native apps can be, which seems to be what they are getting at.

monocasa 7y ago
Vscode does a pretty damn good job.
- solarkraft 7y ago
  VSCode really stands out to me among Electron apps, which is why I would be really interested in a write up about what they are doing to get it so performant (I think Rust is a part of the answer). Of course you can write terribly performing code on all platforms, but certainly some make it easier and/or have their own performance requirements.
  - monocasa 7y ago
    Part of it I think is the super text heavy use case. Unlike slack for isntance that'll have N 30MB gifs (probably multiple copies of each too) in memory at any given point.
- filleduchaos 7y ago
  And still doesn't come close.
  - monocasa 7y ago
    It's pretty damn close if you compare it to native apps with the same feature set.
  - st3fan 7y ago
    It has smoother scrolling than most native editors :-/
    - filleduchaos 7y ago
      Smoother scrolling than most native editors like?
- dewey 7y ago
  Have you tried pasting a very long line or huge file into VSCode? I always have Sublime open for these cases where I need to look at a huge JSON file as VSCode just crashes or becomes unusable.
  - monocasa 7y ago
    I use it with 1.5M line files pretty regularly.
- jamil7 7y ago
  And with all the resources of Microsoft behind it still can't compete with something like sublime on performance. I know it makes up for it in other areas like extensibility but I wouldn't describe VSCode as particularly performant.
Vesuvium 7y ago
I didn't say "may". I said they can because I took care to look at their benchmarks. https://szibele.com/memory-footprint-of-gui-toolkits/chart.svg https://szibele.com/memory-footprint-of-gui-toolkits/chart.s...