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https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031010-00/?p=...
...21st century desktop application development ladies and gentlemen (not that I'm proposing anything constructive).
Wouldn't it be better to make native application, especially for code editors, where developers spend most of their time, where every noticeable lag and glitches are not appreciated.
Edit: Many people here think that I am attacking this web based kind of technology, which I am not, and sorry for not being clear enough, but why chose something so high up the stack for dev tool?
Edit2: For non-believers in nested comments, look -> https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...
TL;DR: It seems to be a problem in Chromium, the relevant CSS (one second change) results in a 60hz animation cycle. Workaround: "editor.cursorBlinking": "solid"
Someone just posted some really embarassing benchmark numbers regarding this issue yesterday: https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...
Note that Atom and VSCode are nearly 10x slower than all the other competition, as well as simply crashing for many of the tests. To be fair, I do think Electron based desktop apps have their niche. Spotify is a perfect example. But they have no place in text editing.
It just doesn't go in my head that we are building text editors inside a web browser! I get it, there are many good use cases for Electron and it's easy to get started with cross platform support, but why is everybody going crazy about text editors in them? Because you can write plugins in JS? Wouldn't it be better to make native application, especially for code editors, where developers spend most of their time, whe…
It just doesn't go in my head that we are building text editors inside a web browser! I get it, there are many good use cases for Electron and it's easy to get started with cross platform support, but why is everybody going crazy about text editors in them? Because you can write plugins in JS? Wouldn't it be better to make native application, especially for code editors, where developers spend most of their time, whe…
Java Swing. Never again.
edit: Do people downvoting even know what it's like building cross platform desktop applications using Java Swing? It's fucking awful, and that's a fact. Even the end result UI design look & feel is butt ugly. Sure you can spice things up with JavaFX but why? Do you not realize how masochistic it was back then vs now with thin web browser clients? Can't believe people are still thumping Java Swing in 2017.
It just doesn't go in my head that we are building text editors inside a web browser! I get it, there are many good use cases for Electron and it's easy to get started with cross platform support, but why is everybody going crazy about text editors in them? Because you can write plugins in JS? Wouldn't it be better to make native application, especially for code editors, where developers spend most of their time, whe…
Yes.
> cross platform support
Yes.
> Because you can write plugins in JS?
Yes.
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As much as I prefer native programs as a user, it's impossible to ignore the benefits of cross-platform development and plebeian hackability/debuggability.
TL;DR: It seems to be a problem in Chromium, the relevant CSS (one second change) results in a 60hz animation cycle. Workaround: "editor.cursorBlinking": "solid"
Kind of ridiculous that it's so easy to make this mistake.