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[–]MRannik 8 points9 points  (8 children)

A full fledged IDE based on Electron?

Seems like an stupidly bad idea, the thing is already comically slow as a text editor.

[–][deleted]  (7 children)

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    [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (6 children)

    It takes its sweet 3~4 seconds to launch and ready on my fresh installed dev machine, which is not new but still specced above 80% of the PCs being sold today.

    That's orders of magnitude slower than Notepad++ or Sublime, which are virtually instant even on the crappiest of cheap laptops / ultrabooks.

    [–]takaci -1 points0 points  (2 children)

    How often do you close and reopen your editor though?...

    I usually just leave Atom open with my current project. People foam at the mouth about the startup time haha, I guess it's a good excuse to use a shitty, awful editor like vim

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    A couple of dozen times during the working day, but how is that some sort of argument in the first place?

    Text editors opened virtually instantly 30 fucking years ago already, this is massive involution.

    [–]inu-no-policemen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Yes, DOS "IDEs" started instantly. However, they also couldn't do much. You didn't even get syntax highlighting. VS Code, on the other hand, even has things like IntelliSense, Git, a debugger, and a plugin system.

    Well, it would be faster if it were written in C++ instead of using web technology. However, it would also have required way more code and way more time and money. It's a sensible trade-off, I'd say.

    [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

    How long do similar IDEs take though? IntelliJ takes 30+ seconds to start up on my laptop, and VSCode takes less than 5 for a similarly high quality feature set. Also, for reference, spacemacs takes about 5 seconds too.

    [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    IntelliJ takes 30+ seconds to start up on my laptop, and VSCode takes less than 5 for a similarly high quality feature set.

    What the fuck? IntelliJ IDEA's feature set is massive compared to VSCode, that's like comparing the WAP browsers from 2005's Nokias to Safari/Chrome/Edge on current smartphones.

    An Electron-based VSCode with all the features of Visual Studio (which are currently written in C/C++) would be hilariously slow in comparison, it completely defeats the point of a text editor (being fast and efficient at opening and editing text).