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by fragmede 100 days ago
Firing up VSCode on an old laptop, and having it get totally bogged down running a text editor killed a part of my soul. I'm from the vim era of computing, but I have a hard time telling people that's the route to go today with today's tools.
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Classic electron app. vscode is no doubt a powerful tool but it and other apps in the modern milieu are the software equivalent of those big lifted trucks that like to "roll coal" and get like 5mpg highway.
Whoever decided to write a text editor in JavaScript and HTML/CSS for any reason other than absolute necessity deserves to be taken out back and shot