> but it requires shipping an entire web browser
That’s a moot point and completely irrelevant for 99.99% people.
That’s a moot point and completely irrelevant for 99.99% people.
I can't speak to the future, but let's say I hope so!
In any event, VS code is only required to render text in a single font, with very few layout concerns, styling, run-level formatting, etc. that require re-flowing across multiple of pages, etc. And each of those is text files measuring in the bytes. Tritium, by contrast, has to hold and operate on PDFs and Word documents each with very complicated layout and rendering logic and measuring in the kbs.
Such as?
> VS Code is very much a special case and not the least bit representative of the typical Electron app.
And Obsidian, and Discord, and Logseq, and Notion, and Figma, and Slack, and Postman, and Insomnia, and so on, and so. Oh wait, so it's not only VS Code?
At minimum it uses ripgrep for file searching, which is written in Rust but I thought I read blog posts about other parts in the past.
> And Obsidian, and Discord, and Logseq, and Notion, and Figma, and Slack, and Postman, and Insomnia, and so on, and so.
Out of the mentions in that list I’ve used, only Obsidian feels comparatively responsive to VS Code. Notion and Slack in particular are slow and can get super bogged down. Discord and Figma sit somewhere in between.