| Before Microsoft, GitHub invented all of Electron just so they could create an IDE in JavaScript (lol) But it was fun - and Electron became something totally different and useful. This is what tech innovation is all about. Microsoft after acquiring them, instead of continuing these great projects with VSCode, instead paid for influencers to trash Electron (which worked for the most part, in 2026 most people think Electron sucks and can't say why - when WKWebView is way worse! Nobody cares). So, MS builds VSCode - doesn't even fork Atom to do so. Looks identical to it. They built it from scratch. Bigger. Slower. Now with Copilot! I just went back to Atom (rather Pulsar, the last good fork). I share this because it's exactly what Microsoft always does. They acquire based on opportunity and competitive space then rarely even use what they paid for. They get rid of all the good employees and the good code. They put a bunch of Indians in there who just hire other Indians and totally ruin the product. But what gets me is EVERYONE uses their stuff still hahahah Guys. STOP USING MICROSOFT STUFF. Get off LinkedIn. Let's all go in on another VCS. Until open source developers put their money with their mouth is, Microsoft will continue to suck in more ways than one. |
Someone needs to fix a memory leak here.
Atom was famously slow. Even among people using it and championing it.
VSCode totally wowed people not just because it was faster, but because it was essentially the first «real» Electron-app which proved Electron-apps could have near native performance.
You got this part 100% backwards.