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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by hedora on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:27AM (#50414632)
Is that really electron's fault though?

Compare vscode memory + cpu usage to whatever IDE you were using before that. It's probably an order of magnitude more efficient.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by dijit on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:43AM (#50414796)
VS code is not an IDE, its more similar to Sublime.

In comparison to Sublime, it is indeed slower and more resource inefficient- however, it is free and good enough.

Not everything boils down to technical purity, there can be other important factors.

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