I build both web apps and Qt apps. TBH, doing something in Qt is about 1/10 to 1/100 the effort of doing it on the web. The web is a morass of confusing standards, none of which work well together. To get guaranteed, predictable behavior which is documented, and will continue to work properly for 10 years after deployment (with only minor maintainence), you simply cannot use the web.

So does it have a NoScript plugin to kill the unavoidable 200 tracking and ad scripts from Google, Facebook and who knows what running in the background? I am sorry if I offend someone with this, however the current Web experience is something I want as far away from my dev. tools as possible.

While your concern might be valid in general, this is applicable to native software just as much.

tracking or ad scripts by facebook or google are in neither atom nor VSCode.

both projects are open source if you care to verify

well, but something similar: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...

you're being asked while installing f you're fine with anonymized usage information being send to MS for further development of the software.

its a simple checkpoint and pretty much every actively developing project does this nowadays.