Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma...
by mpeg on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:14AM
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I agree that electron apps are unnecessarily wasteful but if there’s something important enough to deserve the resources is a code editor.
The underlying problem with Electron is that browsers are also massive resource hogs and I don’t see people switching to elinks anytime soon.
Maybe I’m stuck in a cycle of consumerism - accepting slower software and buying faster hardware - but I value convenience a lot and in the grand scheme of things vscode using up like $5 worth of RAM is not enough to look for alternatives.
The underlying problem with Electron is that browsers are also massive resource hogs and I don’t see people switching to elinks anytime soon.
Maybe I’m stuck in a cycle of consumerism - accepting slower software and buying faster hardware - but I value convenience a lot and in the grand scheme of things vscode using up like $5 worth of RAM is not enough to look for alternatives.