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Re:Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of ... by vmsp on Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:20AM (#18030613)
Jon, it's impressive how you deliver incredibly performant cross-platform UIs. You really should consider talking about your development and custom widget toolkit.

Great job on Sublime Merge.

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Re:Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of ... by interknot on Thursday September 20, 2018 @02:14PM (#18034427)
Emphatically agreed. I've wanted to hear about this for years.
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Re:Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of ... by boromi on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @04:34PM (#18125479)
I am interested in this too, however the team seems very secretive about this aspect of the project.
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Re:Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of ... by mixmastamyk on Thursday September 20, 2018 @02:50PM (#18034637)
I've never experienced a non-performant cross-platform UI.

Well, to be honest I've heard of folks complaining about Electron apps, but are easy enough to avoid. Oh yeah and Swing was a bit sluggish… in the 90s.

What am I missing?

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Re:Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of ... by mixmastamyk on Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:20PM (#18035148)
Still no answers but a lot of malicious downvotes.
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Re:Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of ... by chipotle_coyote on Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:55PM (#18035379)
Allow me to somewhat quippishly rephrase your original post: "I've never heard of badly performing cross-platform apps, except for the ones written in what's currently the most popular cross-platform toolkit and the ones written in one of the most popular cross-platform toolkits a generation ago."
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Re:Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of ... by mixmastamyk on Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:15PM (#18035533)
That leaves one poor performing toolkit, that has an excuse at least. Not hard to avoid apps written in it, in any case.

Qt, Wx, Java, and many others don't or no longer perform poorly. So why the surprise there is one more? Maybe some folks don't know they exist.

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