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by zazaulola 590 days ago
VSCode does not necessarily require Electron.

Unlike Zed, VSCode can actually run on a server, and Google Chrome can be used as a client.

You can even take advantage of all VSCode features and plugins using Google Chrome Mobile.

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Main and often repeated argument against Electron is that it has a browser embedded inside, and that's why it's so bloated, slow and taking up so much memory.

Yet you give counterexample of using... a browser as a client/frontend to vscode. Well it doesn't remove the exact main problem with Electron, does it?