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Given the talks from Microsoft's own React Native team regarding the 300x performance loss from Electron based apps, I am looking forward to the day it gets rewritten in React Native.

https://youtu.be/IUMWFExtDSg?t=1146

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I'm looking forward to the day when you can have multiple windows open on the same project without going through some horrible kludge. Some of us (!) have more than one monitor and would like, say, to put the debug widgetry over on _this_ one.

(Edit: fixed three typos.)

I am glad someone else shares my pain.

Speaking of which, as a light user of VS Code, is anyone else completely confused by the project / workspace interface? I'm always confused as to what project or workspace I'm in and what file is associated with what workspace, and what mode I'm in. The UX could use some love with the onboarding experience.

I open a new window for each project, so I don't share this pain.

This. I wasn't even aware I could use a single window, need to look it up.

I've done this, but the performance tanks over several large projects --- this doesn't happen in separate windows.

Tried it, but I didn't like how single window seemed to work with the VCS detection. And I found it generally too messy to keep track of what files belonged to what project.

I just have a few vscode windows open in fullscreen on my laptop. So I just switch to whatever one I need to use at that time. It's never really more than 3 at a time.

Not at all. You can open a directory, or a workspace. A workspace is just a collection of directories.

If you want a confusing workspace/project system try Eclipse!

Actually, the designer of Eclipse’s and VS Code’s extension system is the same person: Eric Gamma from Gang of four.

We weren't discussing the extension system. Workspaces are a core feature of both IDEs. Still, that's an interesting fact!

I think there's a plugin for it but workspaces would be much more valuable to me if they weren't a file you saved. The idea, I assume, is something like "these 10 repos with these 15 plugins are how I deploy this project."

In the end due to its UX I think it's pretty useless. I do use it on BIG projects because sometimes vscode will update or barf and forget what I had open.

I mostly just do "open folders in workspace" then hope it never goes away.

I bet you are also looking forward to the day when web assembly kills js, and everybody stops using html and css.

You probably mean something in the ballpark of 3x or 300%, rather than 300x?

See the linked video, it is already on the specific moment they talk about it.

Yes, I did, which is why I’m specifically mentioning it.

I stand corrected, did not read the chart properly.

Yes, and your video shows Electron at ~700% of UWP C++ while React Native for Windows is at ~200% of UWP C++. That means an Electron program's reference set is ~3x as large as a RNfW program's, not 300x.

I stand corrected then.

That would be awesome but would have be a complete rewrite of Monaco, and text editor renderers are near the top of programming dark arts.

Can React Native run natively on Windows/Mac/Linux now?

On Windows/Mac yes, that is what Microsoft is implementing.

Linux, there seems no plans other than driving people into WSL instead, so.

"Microsoft loves open source".

On the contrary, Linux fragmentation has proven that Linux only has a place on embedded devices and servers.

POSIX CLI and daemons don't need GUIs.

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