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I've been programming for close to 30 years, starting on a Z80 BASIC with 48 KB of RAM (I'm from a poor country, this is what we had in 1990).

I'm using a lot of Electron apps today. Including VS Code. Because it's so much more productive than anything else I've used before.

I bet you have a very powerful computer. Because you value your time.

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At work, I have a very powerful computer because of resource hogs that work makes me use (Rails, Webpack, React, McAfee, Slack, Windows).

My private computer is much less powerful, but still runs noticeably smoother because I don't put any junk on it.

(I cannot, for the life of myself, figure out why applications on Windows cannot play audio consistently without jitter. Might be McAfee or some other corporate shit.)

It's not windows. If you stop everything from running on startup (which means looking in 6 different places) and your CPU is being cooled well, windows itself can run very smoothly.

VS Code is my primary experience with Electron and it performs incredibly well for me. So I don't really see what all of this fuss is about.

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