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by belval 1736 days ago
No commenting on the React thing, but yes I do think that VSCode has much higher performance requirements than Xbox dashboard or Office plugins.

VSCode has a very technical user base that will complain a lot if there is any kind of sluggish performance when doing live debugging. It's not just to work on small JS projects anymore. I use it to debug CUDA kernels on several processes at the same time and a lot of people have similar push-it-to-the-limit use cases.
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pjmlp 1736 days ago
If the user base was that technical, with performance requirements, they wouldn't be using an Electron based product to start with, when there are plenty of other native alternatives, including for CUDA debugging from Nvidia themselves.
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EMM_386 1735 days ago
I have over 2 decades in this industry and have used almost every IDE that exists.

I work on very large and complex projects ... the current one I'm working with is a massive Angular 12 project.

The fact that it's Electron doesn't matter to me. I am not concerned with it "using much more memory than native" because that has no effect on me.

All I care about that it works, and that is is performant. It is both.

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