Honestly I could try to ignore the memory consumption if at least it was snappy. The few electron apps I use have visible lag when I do something that forces a

Honestly I could try to ignore the memory consumption if at least it was snappy. The few electron apps I use have visible lag when I do something that forces a large redraw. That's a problem that didn't have with GTK app running on a computer with one order of magnitude less computing power and RAM two decades ago. VS code on the first computer I used to program would probably be unusable (if it even launched), yet we had full fledged IDEs back then. I'm not talking about advanced language server plugins here, just basic usage. The great side effect of this is that if you avoid all this wasteful crap and keep using old school technology, computers are snappier than ever. My terminal always pops up instantly, nvim fires up faster than I can press return, rg lets me search a huge codebase with barely noticeable latency. My IMAP mail client is faster, more configurable and more ergonomic than any webmail I've seen. Life is good when you avoid the www.