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Weird that they've switched from Qt for RStudio to being a VSCode fork with Positron. RStudio was so loved precisely because it was lightweight and performant,
by vovavili 1y ago
Weird that they've switched from Qt for RStudio to being a VSCode fork with Positron. RStudio was so loved precisely because it was lightweight and performant, which just isn't a possibility with something like VSCode.
- bb86754 1y agoRStudio is still a web app. It's GWT with QtWebEngine whereas this is Electron. Not too different.
- more0RLess 1y agoRStudio Desktop moved to Electron several years ago, and no longer uses Qt/QtWebEngine. (I'm a developer who works on the RStudio IDE for Posit and was heavily involved in the move to Electron)