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> One day someone will build a good Electron app.

Visual Studio Code is very good in my opinion. It can be done.

It's the best electron app possible but it is still a very bad app.

Why's that? VSCode actually looks to me like a native app. It's really fast and behaves properly like any native app would. I guess most people wouldn't notice it's not native.

Why a bad app?

I think gregman1 means bad from a resource consumption point of view. It takes a lot of memory and CPU compared to similar, non-electron based text editors.

His lazy comment doesn't need rationalising.

VS Code is not 'a very bad app'. If you know of a comparable app that uses fewer resources to a significant degree please let us all know and I'm sure we'll all switch.

Vim?

I did say 'comparable'.

Built in debugger is just one example that makes Vim not comparable to VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/debugging

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