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Though at the cost of a ridiculous amount of processing overhead because you've chosen to forsake nearly every native programming feature the OS provides, in favor of an HTML engine

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Native programming features the OS provides are also not free: it's still similar code drawing things on the screen, making sure they are properly aligned. HTML/CSS is a pretty flexible, and it indeed has some overhead compared to most native UI frameworks, but the "ridiculousness" of this overhead is imaginary.

> but the "ridiculousness" of this overhead is imaginary.

A few weeks ago:

VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014

That was a bug in Chrome (http://crbug.com/361587), it's not inherent to the technology. VS Code ended up implementing the logic in JS to work around it.

As someone who has been hit by every single one of these bugs[1][2][3] but somehow didn't get the VS Code problem I'm not at all convinced that is somehow inherent in using Electron.

I don't think I ever had a "IDE causing high CPU load in" problem in Delphi 2, 3, or 5. I did in Delphi 4, and I have in PowerBuilder, Sybase PowerJ (although there were much worse problems with that!), VB6, Eclipse 2, and I'm sure there are some I've missed.

Bugs suck, but they happen.

[1] http://ridikulouse.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/visual-studio-hig...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1369487/speeding-up-tomca...

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38601171/intellij-idea-20...

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