> I do not know how many developers use VS code, but all of them are using electron and it seems to be fast enough for them.
At this point, I think the debate about slow apps is more ideological than reality.
I also think a lot of people are mistaking backend/network latency for front-end slowness. Slack isn’t going to load your scroll back history any faster if the backend is spending all of that time searching the database. People are too quick to blame the front end.
Either that, or some of these posters are running 10-year old hardware and wonder why it’s slow
At this point, I think the debate about slow apps is more ideological than reality.
I also think a lot of people are mistaking backend/network latency for front-end slowness. Slack isn’t going to load your scroll back history any faster if the backend is spending all of that time searching the database. People are too quick to blame the front end.
Either that, or some of these posters are running 10-year old hardware and wonder why it’s slow