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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by neuronic on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:58AM (#30538761)
As opposed to the Electron-based editors which modern web developers use and heat Starbucks with?
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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by danuker on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:05AM (#30538816)
"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by PestoDiRucola on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:55AM (#30539114)
VSCode is Electron-based and it's quite efficient and not such a memory hog.
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