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> And as VS Code by popping up in more and more sites,

On Linux, VS Code can't even resize without glitching and showing unrendered portions of the window like it's 1999. Nor can it kinetic scroll. Those are two expected highlights of quality GPU-backed software.

Hopefully running in an actual browser would make this better simply because you can choose a browser that isn't Electron.

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afaict, VS Code doesn't employ most of these modern techniques for faster layout and rendering. Last I checked they didn't have CSS containment or shadow roots anywhere, and they have very, very large DOM trees.

They're the classic example of jumping from unoptimized HTML/CSS to GPU to try to fix performance as they moved the terminal to be GPU-based, and it doesn't seemed to have helped because that introduced rendering bugs that would have been impossible with HTML.

I only use VS Code as an example of how many places you app can be used if it's web-based.

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