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Electron apps may be mocked, but they're not avoided by most. VS Code is probably the #1 programmer's editor these days.
by retrac 3y ago
Electron apps may be mocked, but they're not avoided by most. VS Code is probably the #1 programmer's editor these days.
- moffkalast 3y agoSomehow VS Code manages to run Electron and loads in roughly the same amount of time as Sublime Text needs that's compiled into a native binary. Maybe Tauri will make things better in the long run, but so far I haven't heard of any adoption at all.
- nickpeterson 3y agoI think you’re saying that decades of r&d by the largest tech companies in the world can eventually produce a browser runtime that renders text about as fast as a couple people working in python and C.
- mike_hock 3y agoImagine what could have been achieved had the same amount of R&D been poured into a native framework.
- mrguyorama 3y ago"But that's haaaarddddddd for me as a lazy software developer who went to college and learned complex algorithms and calculus and physics and chemistry just because but can't seem to handle a few #ifdefs because they aren't in vogue anymore" Except our organization builds python and java apps so all our shit is multiplatform by default or even by accident. Hell, I put together consistent, cross platform Swing UIs before I even understood what maven was.
- twobitshifter 3y agoBut it’s not a native framework it’s 5 or 6 native frameworks splitting the energy between them.
- qorrect 3y agoVS Code does not feel slow to me , how are they getting such good performance ?
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- Ataraxic 3y agoI kinda disagree with this. I have definitely noticed that my cursor can be slow to respond when some linting/formatting (I can't quite tell what is causing it, I just notice it) is going on. Totally usable, but I'm also coming from emacs and it's not like emacs is known to be blazing fast so I actually think my experience is sort of inline with the article's point. Despite or because of emacs being older, it's more responsive than vscode in my usage.
- ihattendorf 3y agoThey care about and test for performance issues/regressions. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Aperf https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+labe...
- fredrikholm 3y agoHave you ever used Sublime or Vim? Vscode is fast compared to most modern editors, but it's still twice as slow as Sublime in terms of input latency, UI responsiveness, text coloring etc. An hour with Sublime/Vim followed by going back to Vscode is a painful experience...
- c_crank 3y agoOn Windows, what other options do you really have?
- nequo 3y agoBesides all the other alternatives offered by siblings, Kate also works on Windows: https://kate-editor.org/get-it/ https://kate-editor.org/get-it/
- hinkley 3y agoWebstorm
- Teckla 3y agoIt's not really a 100% replacement for all of VS Code's features, but there is a pretty big overlap in functionality that may meet most people's requirements: Notepad++
- BlueTemplar 3y agoNotepad++ ? Various language-specific IDEs like Spyder ?
- twobitshifter 3y agoeMacs
- _dain_ 3y agovim run inside of WSL. i'm serious.
- Exoristos 3y agoThere are a host of alternatives on Windows. Or buy a real IDE, like the JetBrains products.
- palata 3y agoIntelliJ, Android-Studio, CLion, PyCharm... Jetbrains' products.
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- juped 3y agoI remember back when Java programs were painfully slow, these days I've fled vscode for clion.
- twobitshifter 3y agoBrowsers are ridiculously fast. People just add more and more until they hit the wall where they need to start optimizing. For someone trying to get things done, that’s probably the right method. But it means that ultimately what determines how fast your program runs is not how fast your computer runs, but how much delay you’re okay with.