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The word “cheaper” here is doing a lot of work. Yes, it’s cheaper, meaning that it allows you to ship more stuff faster. You could make the argument that this
by bigyikes 4y ago
The word “cheaper” here is doing a lot of work.
Yes, it’s cheaper, meaning that it allows you to ship more stuff faster. You could make the argument that this results in lower quality, but this isn’t always the case. (For example, VS Code feels great!)
Still, I’d often rather have twice the features at 80% the quality, instead of an extremely high quality product that doesn’t have the features I need.
Cheapness leads to abundance leads to innovation.
- anthk 4y agoInnovation? More like W95 (or even ME) compared to NT, and don't even start to compare ME against BSD/Solaris/Linux or Mac OS X.
- 5d8767c68926 4y agoWe're taking about a trillion dollar company who can afford all of the talent and has very limited time pressure. I would prefer they do it correctly.
- bigyikes 4y agoThis misses the point. A trillion dollars goes a lot further when the software is cheaper.
- dmitriid 4y agoBut VSCode isn't cheaper. They had to pour millions of dollars and countless man hours into it. And none of those translated into any meaningful improvements of the platform.
- anilakar 4y agoIt isn't cheap wrt hardware requirements either. My 2.5 year old work laptop becomes unbelievably sluggish if I have to keep multiple Electron apps open.
- kajaktum 4y agoVSCode is adequate, not great. The bar for responsive and minimal application is so bad these days thanks to web apps.
- Kiro 4y agoIt's great and the best desktop app I've ever used.
- jcelerier 4y agoI'm sorry for you if it's the best that you have ever experienced. It is very subpar and slow.
- Semaphor 4y agoIt's the best electron app I've ever used. It's so much faster than anything else I've seen use electron.
- tlavoie 4y agoThat's quite the back-handed compliment though, isn't it?
- Semaphor 4y agoNot really, I’d say VS Code is the only electron app that can stand up to native apps. It’s not the best, but it’s pretty good. Now, for electron, it’s certainly not a compliment. From electron apps I’ve used, only VS Code is great, Discord is good, and everything else is just really, really bad. It’s apparently extremely hard to use electron and have something close to decent performance.
- tlavoie 4y agoRight, sorry, I meant back-handed for Electron. I have used VS Code a bit for a class, but am usually an Emacs user.
- Asmod4n 4y agoVS Code isn’t a web app. The first release was and since then most of it has been rewritten to be a native app.
- somat 4y agoAre you sure? https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/vscode-web https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/vscode-web