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Somehow VS Code manages to run Electron and loads in roughly the same amount of time as Sublime Text needs that's compiled into a native binary.

Maybe Tauri will make things better in the long run, but so far I haven't heard of any adoption at all.

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I think you’re saying that decades of r&d by the largest tech companies in the world can eventually produce a browser runtime that renders text about as fast as a couple people working in python and C.

Imagine what could have been achieved had the same amount of R&D been poured into a native framework.

"But that's haaaarddddddd for me as a lazy software developer who went to college and learned complex algorithms and calculus and physics and chemistry just because but can't seem to handle a few #ifdefs because they aren't in vogue anymore"

Except our organization builds python and java apps so all our shit is multiplatform by default or even by accident. Hell, I put together consistent, cross platform Swing UIs before I even understood what maven was.

But it’s not a native framework it’s 5 or 6 native frameworks splitting the energy between them.

VS Code does not feel slow to me , how are they getting such good performance ?

I kinda disagree with this. I have definitely noticed that my cursor can be slow to respond when some linting/formatting (I can't quite tell what is causing it, I just notice it) is going on. Totally usable, but I'm also coming from emacs and it's not like emacs is known to be blazing fast so I actually think my experience is sort of inline with the article's point.

Despite or because of emacs being older, it's more responsive than vscode in my usage.

They care about and test for performance issues/regressions.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+labe...

Have you ever used Sublime or Vim?

Vscode is fast compared to most modern editors, but it's still twice as slow as Sublime in terms of input latency, UI responsiveness, text coloring etc.

An hour with Sublime/Vim followed by going back to Vscode is a painful experience...

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