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by davidgu 2148 days ago
I am very seldom in a situation where I must download my IDE while traveling in a rural area, run it with Photoshop simultaneously, or use it for the entirety of a 3-hour plane ride.

While multi-hundred-megabyte text editors consuming double digit CPU to render some text are definitely a sign of inefficiencies _somewhere_, I value any marginal productivity benefits from these additional features over (possibly significant!) usability in very resource constrained situations.