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Try a text editor that isn’t built on top of Electron, perhaps.

jchw 4y ago
That's kind of the point isn't it? Personally, I would be ecstatic to ditch VSCode for some super fast native code thingy, but the truth is that it's often just a better experience. The ecosystem is big, and the performance is not all bad news (the ripgrep-based search is pretty damn impressive, and beyond that, it feels like VSCode has less issues with performance cliffs in normal use cases that I've encountered than a lot of older editors, including KDE's Kwrite and GNOME's Gedit, but even other Electron editors like Atom, too. It's not perfect, but there are times when I left Kate to VSCode because opening some file made Kate way too unresponsive.)
- aaronbrethorst 4y ago
  I just moved from VSCode to RubyMine for my Rails work because I was finding the Ruby plug-in ecosystem for VSCode to be too flaky. Performance in both have been fine for me, despite being built in JS and Java. All that said, I really do miss TextMate.
  - jchw 4y ago
    OK, I will give you one thing: I do love Jetbrains IDEs. That said, I don't use them for everything. They use a lot of RAM for me when loading large projects, and they feel a bit awkward outside of "traditional" project structures that work well with VS Code. I know Jetbrains is making a text editor, too. It does look very nice, but I have yet to try it. This all being said, Jetbrains IDEs do still feel less responsive than more native stuff like Kwrite or Notepad++. It can be forgiven of course, but I think it's a valid point to note down, especially given how often people bring up that article comparing latency of desktop computers over time.
  - darkwater 4y ago
    > All that said, I really do miss TextMate. It's still there, no? https://macromates.com/ https://macromates.com/
    - aaronbrethorst 4y ago
      It is there, but seems to be essentially abandonware. The ‘mate’ command line tool to launch the app fails more than half the time on Apple Silicon, the plugins and bundles that exist are years out of date for Ruby and Rails, and I don’t expect it’ll ever get support for LSP. So, sure, TextMate still exists. It’s still my default scratchpad for modifying text, and I even use it for some light scripting from time to time, but I don’t actually use it to build and maintain complex software any longer.
ge96 4y ago
Looks like some people tried to port it to Tauri/Rust. I'm sold on VSC personally. Got my configs all setup. Runs on a phone (Mobian) ha. Edit: I'm aware there's the browser one now built into GitHub.

jchw 4y ago

That's kind of the point isn't it? Personally, I would be ecstatic to ditch VSCode for some super fast native code thingy, but the truth is that it's often just a better experience. The ecosystem is big, and the performance is not all bad news (the ripgrep-based search is pretty damn impressive, and beyond that, it feels like VSCode has less issues with performance cliffs in normal use cases that I've encountered than a lot of older editors, including KDE's Kwrite and GNOME's Gedit, but even other Electron editors like Atom, too. It's not perfect, but there are times when I left Kate to VSCode because opening some file made Kate way too unresponsive.)

aaronbrethorst 4y ago
I just moved from VSCode to RubyMine for my Rails work because I was finding the Ruby plug-in ecosystem for VSCode to be too flaky. Performance in both have been fine for me, despite being built in JS and Java. All that said, I really do miss TextMate.
- jchw 4y ago
  OK, I will give you one thing: I do love Jetbrains IDEs. That said, I don't use them for everything. They use a lot of RAM for me when loading large projects, and they feel a bit awkward outside of "traditional" project structures that work well with VS Code. I know Jetbrains is making a text editor, too. It does look very nice, but I have yet to try it. This all being said, Jetbrains IDEs do still feel less responsive than more native stuff like Kwrite or Notepad++. It can be forgiven of course, but I think it's a valid point to note down, especially given how often people bring up that article comparing latency of desktop computers over time.
- darkwater 4y ago
  > All that said, I really do miss TextMate. It's still there, no? https://macromates.com/ https://macromates.com/
  - aaronbrethorst 4y ago
    It is there, but seems to be essentially abandonware. The ‘mate’ command line tool to launch the app fails more than half the time on Apple Silicon, the plugins and bundles that exist are years out of date for Ruby and Rails, and I don’t expect it’ll ever get support for LSP. So, sure, TextMate still exists. It’s still my default scratchpad for modifying text, and I even use it for some light scripting from time to time, but I don’t actually use it to build and maintain complex software any longer.

ge96 4y ago

Looks like some people tried to port it to Tauri/Rust. I'm sold on VSC personally. Got my configs all setup. Runs on a phone (Mobian) ha. Edit: I'm aware there's the browser one now built into GitHub.