Really weird closing remarks at the end. The bigness of VSCode is because of the HTML- and CSS-related stuff, not the JS part, which relatively speaking can be

Really weird closing remarks at the end. The bigness of VSCode is because of the HTML- and CSS-related stuff, not the JS part, which relatively speaking can be tiny (especially if you're willing to stick with ES6 or thereabouts). Compare: Electron vs QuickJS. The number one reason for not-JS in 2024 is because you can slough off the entire cohort and set of development practices that have calcified around _NPM_ which is about the same reason you'd have wanted to shed the baggage of "Java" in 2004—the mainstream is a magnet for low-quality output held to low standards.