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by sgarland 523 days ago
VSC is the least bad Electron app I’ve ever used, but (heavily subjective) it pales in comparison to Neovim + Tmux. It’s not even close.

Related: I was looking at WinRAR’s site last week after reminiscing about it with coworkers, and found that a. They haven’t really updated their UI since I last used it a decade+ ago b. The download is still 4 MB. THAT is why native is superior – if you know what you’re doing, you can get incredible performance with absurdly low filesizes.
1 comments
8note 523 days ago
why do i care about filezises though? storage is sized for HD video now
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7bit 523 days ago
Because I need the space for videos and games and that's why I have large storage. Not for tiny applications wasting 300 MBs because someone thought that an electron app would reduce engineering cost.
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sgarland 523 days ago
Aside from the fact that it shouldn’t take hundreds of MB to launch the simplest of apps, and that it’s incredibly wasteful on its face? Memory. Where do you think those bytes end up when you launch it?
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eviks 523 days ago
It's not, plenty of old hardware exists, but if you personally don't care about waste, what do you expect, a convincing argument that you should?
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