>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

>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.