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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that even Microsoft choose to use Electron when they built Teams. MS got loads of developers and Teams is really a big product in terms of users.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and vscode

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VSC is an interesting case because they opted not to use any JS frameworks for performance

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

💀 writing a text editor in electron and worrying about performance is wild /hj

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's quick and doesn't lag at all, even with the couple dozen plugins I have installed. Compare that to Atom (or whatever it's called now) with zero plugins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

i cant relate sadly. ive got a decent computer but vscode still takes a while to load (with plugins). neovim on the other hand takes a split second to open, and has never crashed on me, even with the equivilent of my vscode plugins