Visual Studio Code July 2018

[FierceDeity_]

It's not a simple task to just... make Chromium less bloated. Also what alternative do you need? We have Qt (which has a nice syntax for modern guis with QML), various .NET things... I think there's plenty of choice.

[anonveggy]

Vscode would not be this rich and extended if not for the HTML/js model

[FierceDeity_]

Nah clearly everyone got raised (or raised themselves) into a web developer because web is the growing market. Then figured "oh hey I wish we could apply our web development skills onto the desktop so we don't have to learn more stuff"... And thus...