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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:34PM (#13941987)
> In order to render HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you need an entire web rendering engine.

Getting to piggyback on V8 and Blink work is, I suspect, often a benefit rather than a cost in the eyes of developers of Electron-based editors. Sure, it's bigger resource load, but for use cases where the performance is acceptable, it's a lot less developer load to get the functionality out the door.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by allendoerfer on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:50PM (#13942879)
Until you have to reimplement even blinking cursors.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:14PM (#13943151)
No, even after that I'm pretty sure it's a net win in developer time.
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