Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsive desktop app

Re:Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsiv... by vvanders on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:13PM (#15393485)

As someone who spends all day in IntelliJ there's no way it's 10x as fast, hell for me it's flipped the other direction.

VSCode is easily 10x faster than IntelliJ. If I'm writing Java I'll happily use IntelliJ but anything else it's VSCode or vim.

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Re:Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsiv... by joshribakoff on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:31PM (#15393651)

Same here, in a legacy code base with millions of lines of duplicated code that I unfortunately had to work on, IntelliJ would not even let me type, it just froze up all the time. Atom also sucked, fuzzy finder locked up the UI for 10 minutes. VSCode I can cold boot & start using the fuzzy finder, no issues. Feels like vim, in that it "just works". So performance is more dependent on what the software is doing, not what UI toolkit / runtime it uses. VSCode is faster on this codebase because it seems to not block editing due to a search index, like the others -- which has nothing to do with Electron vs Java.

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Re:Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsiv... by boondaburrah on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:19PM (#15393535)

Sure vim beats out both of them but I'm constantly having to wait for VSCode to catch up with me or my cursor will start inserting characters at the wrong spot. IntelliJ works as fast as I can think (minus the boot up time).

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Re:Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsiv... by 13years on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:14PM (#15394044)

I use Eclipse with its native SWT UI and VSCode still blows it away in UI speed.

Actually, if Mozilla's Servo tech gets integrated into something like Electron, then we will have some serious performance capabilities surpassing pretty much anything else comparable.

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Re:Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsiv... by chillee on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:22PM (#15394703)

I believe the VSCode team is indeed looking into using webassembly.

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Re:Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsiv... by dangerboysteve on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:20PM (#15393549)

Are you running stock or loaded with plugins ?

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Re:Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsiv... by vvanders on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:50PM (#15393820)

Stock Android IntelliJ, VSCode with a few plugins(Vim bindings mostly).

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Re:Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsiv... by _pmf_ on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:08AM (#15398974)

Android "yes, you gave me 2 GB RAM for Gradle for building a 10 MB APK, but I'd still like more" Studio.

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