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They were supposed to optimize for the situation in which they weren't the only program running on a computer, and they failed to do it.
by pessimizer 2mo ago
They were supposed to optimize for the situation in which they weren't the only program running on a computer, and they failed to do it.
- Pavilion2095 2mo agoCan you blame them? Users didn't care. Heck, developers didn't care - look at how popular vscode is.
- glaslong 2mo agoRevealed preferences aside, every dev comment section for 10 years HAS been full of people loudly insulting Electron.
- odo1242 2mo agoHonestly, despite being Electron VSCode manages to outspeed every other editor on my machine (by qualitative metrics), even stuff like Zed (which manages to lag on stuff VSCode doesn’t despite performance being its main selling point)