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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by roryisok on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:04PM (#13945148)
I see this argument against electron again and again. Sure, sometimes its overkill - I've seen tray notification apps built with it - but sometimes, it's not. Sure it's not as efficient as something written in .Net, but its a great, hassle free way to go cross platform.

People don't complain that web IDEs are bloated and slow because they need a web browser

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by wldcordeiro on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:07PM (#13945168)
Really the argument gets less and less valid over time, for every one of these issues that get discovered, a patch gets made that solves the issue. The platform evolves and gets better until someone else finds an inefficiency, that seems like a pretty typical advancement to me.
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