Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
by cgrealy on Sunday May 17, 2020 @09:57PM
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>> VS Code chokes on files of non-trivial size
VS Code isn't really designed as a general purpose text editor. It's meant as a development environment.
If MS choose to optimise the experience of 99% of the use cases (i.e. editing source code, which should never even approach 1GB), then that's the correct call IMO.
>> For anyone wondering why I'd open up a 1 GB file in a text editor, I guess the answer is largely because it's convenient.
I can completely appreciate the use of a text editor to open a massive log file, etc, I just don't think that's something VS Code is designed for. You can always use Sublime or Atom to open those files; while getting the nicer (IMO) dev experience with VS Code.
VS Code isn't really designed as a general purpose text editor. It's meant as a development environment.
If MS choose to optimise the experience of 99% of the use cases (i.e. editing source code, which should never even approach 1GB), then that's the correct call IMO.
>> For anyone wondering why I'd open up a 1 GB file in a text editor, I guess the answer is largely because it's convenient.
I can completely appreciate the use of a text editor to open a massive log file, etc, I just don't think that's something VS Code is designed for. You can always use Sublime or Atom to open those files; while getting the nicer (IMO) dev experience with VS Code.