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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by pluma on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:44AM (#14095618)
VSCode isn't slow. Atom is slow.

Since both are written with electron the difference must obviously be the actual implementation, not the platform itself.

Keep in mind VSCode was written by Microsoft who have decades of experience writing IDEs and text editors, whereas Atom was written by GitHub who are mostly working on the GitHub product.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by ori_b on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:51AM (#14104253)
> VSCode isn't slow. Atom is slow.

Could have fooled me.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by iterateandgit on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:20AM (#14163071)
VScode runs like a dream on my hexacore/8GB/SSD desktop, but brings my atom/2GB/32GBeMMC based Asus Eeebook X205TA to its knees. Native programs for low power systems seems sound practice to me.
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