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VSCode is a great example. We’ve already established that the average joe out there doesn’t care about whether an app is implemented in electron or not. But VSCode’s success at the expense of every other editor out there indicates that even developers don’t care that much. The important thing is features - which VSCode has, and the speed at which those features are developed and deployed on all platforms - where VSCo…
Some do, while I can't speak for the emacs community the (n)vim community is very active and engaged. There are modern vim plugins for nearly everything. The developers using VSCode tend to be developing on overpowered workstations where the difference is less noticeable. It doesn't mean it isn't wasteful. At some point we'll hit some upper bounds as an industry and have to rethink how we develop software, the trend…
Indeed, even Java and .NET are improving their AOT stories, while available since the early days, weren't as widely deployed as they could have been.