Is that really electron's fault though?
Compare vscode memory + cpu usage to whatever IDE you were using before that. It's probably an order of magnitude more efficient.
Compare vscode memory + cpu usage to whatever IDE you were using before that. It's probably an order of magnitude more efficient.
In comparison to Sublime, it is indeed slower and more resource inefficient- however, it is free and good enough.
Not everything boils down to technical purity, there can be other important factors.
Perhaps a useless comparison if one thing can be converted into something else; it doesn’t mean that the base of a thing is the thing that can be evolved into.