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by geodel 1093 days ago
I think people are needlessly disparaging this beautiful, fast, lightweight tool.

These look similar to haters who claimed horse cart can't be faster than automobile once some performance optimizations are put in place.

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I have literally never seen an Electron-based application that wasn't overly bloated and slow to start up.

I have seen a tiny number that performed decently once running, but they are the exceptions.

We're discussing one right now. VSCode is an electron-based application, isn't overly-bloated, and starts up quickly. I switch between IJ and VSC every day and VSC is significantly faster, including startup. But, even if it _was_ slower on startup, that would be a tradeoff I'd be happy with if it was faster or more functional normally. I restart my computer maybe once a week, I'd be fine to wait another couple seconds.
VSCode is better than many, but I do think it counts as bloated, has reasonably high recommended machine requirements, and performs more poorly than I would expect of such an application.

It does perform better than IJ and the like, but that's a bit of damning with faint praise.

I don't comment beyond that on it as I don't use it more than I have to (for reasons unrelated to it being Electron-based) and want to avoid Speaking Of That I Know Not. I was speaking about Electron more generally.