Is it a unicorn? Atom is the second best “IDE” I’ve used. :p
I also think slack and simple note work really well, and I already mentioned Discord.
So I’m not really sure where it got it’s bad rep. Maybe because it’s JavaScript and people hate that?
I also think slack and simple note work really well, and I already mentioned Discord.
So I’m not really sure where it got it’s bad rep. Maybe because it’s JavaScript and people hate that?
Atleast about a year back when I used it, Atom quickly filled up about 8GB of RAM for a moderately sized project in Go plus all necessary plugins.
VSC is fast but no lightweight either and hogs some resources.
It's not inherently a problem with Javascript, usually it's some framework like React being misused as usual inducing a lot of GC activity on top of unnecessary memory bloat.
There are a lot of great electron apps, that frankly don’t have non-electron equals, so it obviously works. Yet it somehow always gets hit with these “well c++ could have done it better”.
Maybe it’s true, but if the biggest problem with electron is people using a framework wrong. Then what makes you think they’d do a better job in c++?