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I use VS Code because it's a great editor... but it eats a few hundred MiB of RAM and it doesn't start instantly... On a machine with 32 GiB or RAM, 8 CPU cores
by d_tr 2y ago
I use VS Code because it's a great editor... but it eats a few hundred MiB of RAM and it doesn't start instantly... On a machine with 32 GiB or RAM, 8 CPU cores and a fast NVMe drive. The main window is a glorified notepad. How will it fare on, say, an SBC?
Electron might have certain advantages compared to alternatives, but this is more of a result of decades of a crappy attitude towards software development. We should not be content with something like this.
- rchaud 2y agoIs there an alternative to Electron that allows a program to be compiled for multiple OSes without having to maintain separate codebases for each?
- freedomben 2y agoJava has offered this for a very long time. (Swing, SWT, Java FX)
- philglau 2y agoQt
- waldrews 2y agoIronically, .Net has several.
- wetpaws 2y ago[dead]
- theturtletalks 2y agoTauri seems to address the issues with Electron and works cross platform. It’s still early though and doesn’t have feature parity with Electron yet.
- neonsunset 2y agohttps://www.avaloniaui.net/ https://www.avaloniaui.net/ and http://platform.uno/ http://platform.uno/
- jappgar 2y agowho cares? the difference between 50ms and 5ms is barely pereceptible. vscode isn't slow. it's fast. it could be faster, but making it faster would be, ironically, a waste of time.