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I thought VSCode has been the poster child for Electron apps for years now. No one cites Slack as a good example for an app
by jayflux 5y ago
I thought VSCode has been the poster child for Electron apps for years now. No one cites Slack as a good example for an app
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoGood point. VSCode isn’t bad.
- vmladenov 5y agoVSCode is only fast by IDE standards whereas functionality-wise it’s more an extensible text editor. It lags even at the modest task of resizing its own window, where the UI just freezes at its original rectangle and waits until you release the window. No native app I use behaves like this. This is even before mentioning the innumerate pop-up <div>s that all have different, inconsistent styling. As an application it’s absolutely alien on the system.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoI'm in the process of adding "lipstick to the pig," so to speak, on the app I've been developing for quite some time, now. It's not done, but we are at the point where we can start trotting it out to people from whom we are begging money, so I want it as polished and refined as possible. This means lots of "little" things, like smooth transitional animations, fast operations, threaded behavior, etc. Native is good for that. It's lookin' pretty good. No compromises.