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I'm impressed by the performance and start-up time of their JS-based environment; it's ridiculous that it's that fast while a heavily modularized OSGi-bnased Eclipse environment takes an order of magnitude more time to start, in spite of lazy loading of modules.

The font rendering is shitty, tough, but that's probably expected when using OpenGL.

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Wait, I thought they were using Chromium for rendering. Are you saying that chromium uses OpenGL or that they aren't using chromium? And why would OpenGL be the cause of shitty font rendering? OpenGL handles points and shaders, not fonts - that's the job of something like freetype.

If you're talking about Windows, then maybe it will improve once this issue is fixed: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692

So, okay then, it's about 12 weeks away from hitting stable. Took em a while but I'm glad it's finally being fixed.

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