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Re:Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim by Illniyar on Monday August 21, 2017 @11:25PM (#15069472)
You mean like react-native?
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Re:Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim by IamCarbonMan on Monday August 21, 2017 @11:56PM (#15069576)
That's still JS. React Native doesn't get rid of JS, it just exposes native platform APIs to JS.
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Re:Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim by novembermike on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:48AM (#15070037)
JS isn't the problem though. V8 is pretty efficient and lightweight. The problem is that Electron pulls in all of the DOM stuff when there are lighter alternatives built into most operating systems.
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Re:Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim by mamcx on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @07:13PM (#15077155)
> V8 is pretty efficient and lightweight

How much lightweight? Similar to Lua?

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Re:Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim by mamcx on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @11:56AM (#15073622)
Yeah, but not with the full weight of node, js or (html)DOM.

For the UI something like TCL or Lua or just some DSL is better.

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