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by Analemma_ 3355 days ago
> If a single developer can create ST from scratch for Windows, OS X and Linux,

One of the reasons why some people are switching from ST to Atom/VSCode is the former's tortured development schedule, which has seen months or years go by without an update. Contrast VSC, which reliably delivers a heap of improvements every month. JavaScript is probably responsible for a big portion of this. Again, it's a tradeoff.

> then surely GitHub or Microsoft (for VSCode) can create a cross platform native set of UI components in C or C++,

Maybe they can. Or maybe they can't, and if they tried then they'd have the same slow pace as ST. You don't know.
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pseudalopex 3355 days ago
VS Code's release record is impressive. And didn't it grow out of the Monaco browser-based editor? Microsoft probably wouldn't have funded the hypothetical C++ version.

That said, one of the Atom developers says using web technologies made development harder in many ways.[1] Very few solo developers can match a team with Microsoft's resources, and a monthly release schedule is more about discipline than anything else.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14142124

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hashbig 3355 days ago
>Contrast VSC, which reliably delivers a heap of improvements every month. JavaScript is probably responsible for a big portion of this.

I am pretty sure the project being open source and in the hand of a team in a big company instead of an independent developer has more to do with it.

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