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Not op but there is a lot of details about VS code including electron that could have been done better.

VS Code is one of the most performant electron apps ever written. Extensions and plugins are always the culprit of poor performance.

That can be said about any project.

And VSCode as been improving since inception, hence why it ate a large pie of the market.

I think the exact opposite, this why alternatives like Zed is taking off.

Did Zed fix font rendering on low dpi resolution yet? I figured if they couldn't fix such a basic functionality for any editor, for over a year, while pushing AI to please stakeholders, they weren't worth my time. And I question their priorities even if they finally fixed it.

And did they implement debugger support?

When I need a barebones editor I reach for Sublime which doesn't market themselves as something else.

As for Zed taking off, I see a lot of vocals in some niche communities but they barely register, if at all, in large annual surveys.

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