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Pretty obvious what they're going for here, but a welcome move all the same IMO. I always trim down the UI as much as I can when working on IntelliJ/RubyMine, so I appreciate them making it look like VSCode while still having the powerful IDE tooling underneath.

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They are also coming out with a competitor to VS Code before long. I am interested to see how that performs as it will not be based on Electron.

native UIs are generally slower than web, although at least it seems they are using the chromium 2D renderer Skia here

>native UIs are generally slower than web

Can you expand on that? It seems so contrary to common sense and experience that either you must have an interesting point, or you left out a 'not'.

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