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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by ThunderSizzle on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:40PM (#50410464)
I compared NP++ to VS Code at the time. VS Code was nice to use, but it was slower. It was faster than Visual Studio, but that's because VS Code without extensions didn't have language support, etc like VS did.

I find it odd you see otherwise.

And VS 2026 is faster than VS Code these days, now that they spent time optimizing it.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by load-bearing on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:04AM (#50411063)
I'm fairly sure VS low performance and responsiveness is caused by their use of WPF for the UI. Never seen a single responsive application written in that toolkit, it's even worse than electron. Not surprised it hasn't taken off outside of enterprises.
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