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Re:Winamp Skin Museum by reaperducer on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:18PM (#24376891)
One of the biggest things people complain about with Electron apps is their slowness.

When I started using VSCode, it was perfectly snappy and I could see what people were talking about when they said, "But VSCode is Electron, and it's fine — it's just crappy developers."

After about six months of using it and loading in fewer than ten extensions, it has become very laggy. To the point that I have had to train myself to pause my typing after I press certain key combinations while the system catches up.

VSCode is great, but it's not a poster child for Electron.

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Re:Winamp Skin Museum by fiddlerwoaroof on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:36PM (#24377075)
Yeah, VSCode did that thing where a great product seems to just become worse, for no obvious reason.
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Re:Winamp Skin Museum by isochronous on Friday September 04, 2020 @04:20PM (#24378507)
The reason IS obvious: It's called "feature bloat." That being said, unless you install a bunch of extensions, VS Code is still pretty snappy, at least on all of my computers.
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