[criddell]

> The future of all software is as a web app. Why not bring the spirit of SumatraPDF to the web?

That feels like a 180 after reading a couple thousand words extolling the virtues of small, fast code with minimal dependencies.

[burself]

I think "spirit of SumatraPDF" means that he wouldn't npm install 800K lines of code into his project 5 minutes after creating it.

I look at the speed and efficiency of VSCode and it gives me hope that it's possible to write the high quality programs that we're used to from C/C++ using web technologies. It's just that right now we don't have enough good programmers creating good programs to incentivize the others to do better.

[badpenny]

VS Code is neither fast nor efficient. I'm not hating on it as I like it more than most Electron apps, but I use it on a laptop with a Core 2 Duo P8600 CPU (among other things) and it's pretty sluggish.

[fomine3]

It's impressive that it barely works on C2D P8600.

[criddell]

I don't know that VSCode is a great example. I just started it and SublimeText and VSCode takes an order of magnitude more memory. If I watch the Task Manager as I type into each, VSCode also uses about 10x as much CPU which translates into worse battery consumption.

[xwolfi]

But he doesn't care about your opinion. As you can see he's not a great team player :D