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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by tjpnz on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:47AM (#16069625)
> electron developers are going to understand how to use browsers, but fixing the browser itself is the way to make it use less RAM.

This to me is the crux of the issue. Github has a lot of great engineers but they're less likely to be versed in C/C++/whatever else is required to make this kind of thing truly succeed.

It really begs the question of what Microsoft were thinking the day they decided to build Code on it.

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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by giancarlostoro on Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:15AM (#16069759)
Microsoft is thinking of portability as a primary. Also VS Code is a way better experience than Atom after having given Atom many chances. Microsoft wants to build tools anyone can use to enhance usage of their cloud platform offerings from any OS.
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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by jsmeaton on Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:42AM (#16069900)
They’d already built a web based editor for cloud dev and ported it to electron as a desktop app afaik. They didn’t set out to make an electron editor.
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