Re:Improving startup time in Atom with V8 snapshots
by pseudalopex on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:21PM
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VS Code's release record is impressive. And didn't it grow out of the Monaco browser-based editor? Microsoft probably wouldn't have funded the hypothetical C++ version.
That said, one of the Atom developers says using web technologies made development harder in many ways.[1] Very few solo developers can match a team with Microsoft's resources, and a monthly release schedule is more about discipline than anything else.
Re:Improving startup time in Atom with V8 snapshots
by hashbig on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @07:31PM
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>Contrast VSC, which reliably delivers a heap of improvements every month. JavaScript is probably responsible for a big portion of this.
I am pretty sure the project being open source and in the hand of a team in a big company instead of an independent developer has more to do with it.
One of the reasons why some people are switching from ST to Atom/VSCode is the former's tortured development schedule, which has seen months or years go by without an update. Contrast VSC, which reliably delivers a heap of improvements every month. JavaScript is probably responsible for a big portion of this. Again, it's a tradeoff.
> then surely GitHub or Microsoft (for VSCode) can create a cross platform native set of UI components in C or C++,
Maybe they can. Or maybe they can't, and if they tried then they'd have the same slow pace as ST. You don't know.