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Post by fragmede » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 6:03 PM UTC

dekerta wrote: post #120

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I have never encountered an Electron app that can even display the results of keystrokes in a timely manner, and that includes vscode. All Electron apps waste system resources to an obscene degree. Also, Electron apps have already thrown away OS conventions to the point that user interface consistency has become a thing of the past. I don't believe that either choice is ideal, but if Godot were ubiquitous instead of…

Are you running a 15 year old netbook or something? I've never noticed any input lag in VSCode or Slack (or any other Electron apps I can think of)

Post by trealira » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 6:18 PM UTC

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I think it's very subjective what is considered performant. I for one don't think about VSCode as a performant app, for me it is a resource hog, not at all that responsive app, there's always a slight delay / lag in input reaction, simply not a fast application.

So that the rest of us can calibrate, what text editors do you use that you consider to be performant?

Post by fkyoureadthedoc » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 6:25 PM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #121

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Are you running a 15 year old netbook or something? I've never noticed any input lag in VSCode or Slack (or any other Electron apps I can think of)

they're a text editor and a chat client, and a 30 year old computer can run vim/emacs and irssi just fine.

Post by trealira » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 6:30 PM UTC

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I feel like operating system implies the existence of a kernel

An application that spawns processes/apps/modules, controls them and lets them communicate back to the application for some service is also, in a loose sense, an operating system.

Post by forrestthewoods » Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 6:31 PM UTC

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> People hate on Electron because they have bad experiences with many Electron apps, but that's not because Electron is inherently terrible, it's because most developers choose Electron because it requires the lowest amount of effort. When you start with that as your single reason for choosing a tech stack, it's unsurprising that optimizing performance never happens. Which amounts to a strong argument in favor of usi…

The problem is that Electron is superior to something like a Godot UI in absolutely everything else. Sure Godot can be ok for trivial apps, but extracting performance out of Electron is also not that difficult for trivial apps in the first place.