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VSCode runs amazingly on my 2.5 year old laptop. And while I love the word "webshit" in itself -- it's a very pleasing word to say -- I object to it. The web

VSCode runs amazingly on my 2.5 year old laptop. And while I love the word "webshit" in itself -- it's a very pleasing word to say -- I object to it. The web is not universally shit. It has advantages: primarily almost truly "write once, run anywhere." I run Ubuntu. I almost certainly would not be able to use VSCode on my laptop if it were not an Electron app. I am better off having an Electron version of VSCode than some native version of it existing that doesn't run on Linux. (Also, isn't Visual Studio a native app, and hot garbage compared to VSCode? I've never used it, but that's what I hear.)

ddevault 6y ago
>VSCode runs amazingly on my 2.5 year old laptop. Is this some kind of great achievement? Vim runs ten times as fast on a 28 year old PDP-11. >The web is not universally shit. [citation needed] To quote the old Java saying, saying "write once, run everywhere" is a selling point of Java is like saying anal sex is great because it works on all genders. Like... maybe, but it's not really the point. You couldn't use VSCode on Linux, but you could use any of several much better editors, and effectively double your RAM to boot. >(Also, isn't Visual Studio a native app, and hot garbage compared to VSCode? I've never used it, but that's what I hear.) Back when I used Windows as a dev platform, years and years ago, Visual Studio was quite pleasant. The experience of that back in the day is much better than the experiences I had with VSCode more recently. But both of them are terrible compared to the native development environment of Linux.
- jolux 6y ago
  >To quote the old Java saying, saying "write once, run everywhere" is a selling point of Java is like saying anal sex is great because it works on all genders. Like... maybe, but it's not really the point. what does this mean exactly
clarry 6y ago
> It has advantages: primarily almost truly "write once, run anywhere." Wanna take a shot at porting electron to a new platform? It's only a couple dozen million lines of code.
- twicetwice 6y ago
  How often do you need to do that? Also, what major platforms don't have a modern web browser?

ddevault 6y ago

>VSCode runs amazingly on my 2.5 year old laptop. Is this some kind of great achievement? Vim runs ten times as fast on a 28 year old PDP-11. >The web is not universally shit. [citation needed] To quote the old Java saying, saying "write once, run everywhere" is a selling point of Java is like saying anal sex is great because it works on all genders. Like... maybe, but it's not really the point. You couldn't use VSCode on Linux, but you could use any of several much better editors, and effectively double your RAM to boot. >(Also, isn't Visual Studio a native app, and hot garbage compared to VSCode? I've never used it, but that's what I hear.) Back when I used Windows as a dev platform, years and years ago, Visual Studio was quite pleasant. The experience of that back in the day is much better than the experiences I had with VSCode more recently. But both of them are terrible compared to the native development environment of Linux.

jolux 6y ago
>To quote the old Java saying, saying "write once, run everywhere" is a selling point of Java is like saying anal sex is great because it works on all genders. Like... maybe, but it's not really the point. what does this mean exactly

clarry 6y ago

> It has advantages: primarily almost truly "write once, run anywhere." Wanna take a shot at porting electron to a new platform? It's only a couple dozen million lines of code.

twicetwice 6y ago
How often do you need to do that? Also, what major platforms don't have a modern web browser?