Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren...
by thomastjeffery on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:36PM
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> when you consider the time investment to develop the infrastructure of a text editor today vs just using Electron, the time investment
...is exactly the same. No matter what gui toolkit you use, you still need to develop the infrastructure. Electron doesn't know how to handle keyboard and mouse events, it doesn't have a text buffer implemented, has no understanding of different text encodings, how to parse different languages, and draw different colored text accordingly, or format it, etc.
...is exactly the same. No matter what gui toolkit you use, you still need to develop the infrastructure. Electron doesn't know how to handle keyboard and mouse events, it doesn't have a text buffer implemented, has no understanding of different text encodings, how to parse different languages, and draw different colored text accordingly, or format it, etc.