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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by sfifs on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:23PM (#13941216)
Very simple, there's a couple of orders of magnitude greater number of developers and designers who have skill with web technologies than native UI. Similarly there's a couple of orders of magnitude more options of UI frameworks and design patterns. Add to the fact that Blink, Webkit, V8 and Chakra have been constantly pushing the bounds on speed bringing a web technology based front end within touching distance in terms of speed vs. native.

Given all these factors, any product using web technologies for UI can move much faster than products which don't. Like how Sublime and every other programming text editor basically got eaten up by VSCode and Atom in about a year and half.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by millstone on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:37PM (#13941365)
It's the typical web story. You can get to "good enough" with blazing speed, but the limitations of the web make it hard to achieve a high level of polish.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by userbinator on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:46PM (#13946433)
Very simple, there's a couple of orders of magnitude greater number of developers and designers who have skill with web technologies than native UI.

There is a very succinct rebuttal to that, and a good explanation for why apps based on "web technology" are they way they are: "quality is not quantity."

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by dom0 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:35PM (#13942712)
> Very simple, there's a couple of orders of magnitude greater number of developers and designers who have skill with web technologies than native UI.

[citation needed] - web application development is incredibly complex and can't be compared to just "web development" (e.g. writing a HTML document or template and styling it).

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by zigzigzag on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:23AM (#13948153)
I still use Sublime. I've also used Atom and I didn't see any features it had that Sublime didn't. They're both very basic text editors, with the difference that Sublime is about 100x faster and less bloated.
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