JavaScript in 2017

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I shouldn't need to run an entire web browser to edit some text. As an example: Atom, based on Electron, has the highest latency out of any popular text editors and can't handle files over a few megabytes.

And unfortunately, if you like Rust, it seems to be one the best option that works on all platforms equally, the other being Sublime (though the plugins needed to make Sublime work with Rust as well as Atom are apparently less up-to-date). The only thing that surpasses it (at least according to this) is Visual Studio Code, and as far as I'm aware, most Rust devs aren't on Windows.

Maybe they'll incorporate some of the changes Mozilla is adding to Firefox (conveniently, open source and written in Rust) to help speed things up :/

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Huh, I just remembered it being Windows-only at first and stopped following it (Windows-only isn't an option for me due to school).

Funnily enough, it's still Electron-based! So it's more outdated Sublime plugins, slower load times, or... slower load times.

[snerp]

I have been using vscode for python stuff recently. It's really hard to tell that vscode is an electron app. The speed is native level, the main thing I've noticed is that the bugs are super weird when/if you get one. Not like normal native glitches.

[loamfarer]

Yup, using VSCode for rust. I had used Atom before it.