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VS Code gets a pass, it is a quasi-IDE, Electron or not, it is a heavyweight. Tough I still use Sublime Text for performance reasons. Discord and Slack: no exc
by GuB-42 6y ago
VS Code gets a pass, it is a quasi-IDE, Electron or not, it is a heavyweight. Tough I still use Sublime Text for performance reasons.
Discord and Slack: no excuses. These are chat apps running in the background. There could be a client taking just kilobytes it there was a will for it.
- jcelerier 6y agoThere is one, it's written by a single person in C++/Qt and rolls over both Slack & Discord in terms of UI performance : https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
- seanp2k2 6y agoAlmost like those reasons for using Electron about developer productivity are really exaggerated. I wish they would invest in a few people to help optimize performance to improve UX, as it affects every one of their users.