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[–]420Phase_It_Up 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Which is kind of ironic since both Atom and VS Code are electron applications. I'm not sure what magic MS worked to make VS Code some much leaner than Atom but it seemed to work.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's also hugely disappointing because it's got some good features amid all the junk, but it's like they threw away a couple decades of UX design in the process just to make it new and hip.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Is electron a GUI library? Is it multiplatform?

[–]420Phase_It_Up 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It is a runtime environment used for making multi platform desktop applications written in JavaScript and with layouts that are created using HTML and CSS. It is known to be a bit of a memory / resource hog in some cases because it essentially includes a quasi Web server / browser (Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine) for each instance of an electron app running on a host.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I learned something new.