There's a reason software trends towards higher level, less performant abstractions over time. The takes about chrome being a memory hog or electron being inherently slow are very tired at this point
It's just demonstrates a very poor grasp of what actually matters in the world. And the performance gap is greatly exaggerated.
Most people would agree VS Code is very snappy, and it's written in JS and browser based. There's no inherent reason they have to be slow. And we don't double the RAM in computers every few years to leave it unused
I understand why developers like Electron, but like everything it's a tradeoff.
What..? Many common managed platforms are also garbage collected - .NET and Java, for example.
If I assume you misspoke with “managed” it still is untrue that garbage collection means “slower” because “slower” says nothing about whether you are measuring throughout or latency.
On a point of clarity.
Who is we?
I don't want my browser taking up 14gigs of my 16gigs just to watch a cat meme...thanks.
I would like my experience to be improved and elevated while using less resources. Efficiency.
> It's just demonstrates a very poor grasp of what actually matters in the world.
I find this particular statement...lacks any modicum of humility. One might say it ventures into dangerously callous.
Put simply, outside first world economies, most of humanity does not earn enough money to buy a new macbook pro/ Dell XPS every 2 years nor have access to fast internet...relying on crappy broadband instead.
Even those people deserve efficient software that does its utmost to not hog the little resources so they can get things done yes?
So most of the time people are not discussing the same application experience. VS Code with nothing installed isn't that bad, once you start actually using it for code then performance drops off a cliff.
