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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by heywire on Sunday May 17, 2020 @05:44PM (#23215779)
I love vs code, and its plugin system, but if I’m on my laptop without a charger, I use something else. When I’m running vs code, my battery life is cut nearly in half.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by noahtallen on Sunday May 17, 2020 @06:38PM (#23216162)
What do you use instead? In my experience, normal IDEs (Android Studio, Xcode, Visual Studio) all perform worse than VS Code in terms of memory use and battery. :/
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by heywire on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:18PM (#23216442)
Qt Creator or if my battery is real low, a text editor like Gedit (yes, I’m probably saving more there just by not having features like code completion and syntax checking).
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by p0nce on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:08AM (#23220912)
Not old versions of Visual Studio.
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