[laumars]

I've found every Electron app I've used to be terrible. This includes VSCode. In fact compare VSCode to Adobe Brackets - both of which are using web technologies as their framework but Brackets is a node.js application while VSCode is Electron, and you'll see just how badly Electron performs when even compared to similar technologies.

[hex13]

I used Brackets maybe 2 years ago and it was very slow back then. Maybe now they have optimized it, I don't know.

[laumars]

Oh it's definitely slow compared to the likes of Sublime Text or vim. But compared to Atom, VSCode, etc Brackets feels a lot snappier and less memory hungry.

This is what I've experienced on 4 different hardware platforms however all running ArchLinux so YMMV.