VS Code is electron and it has been optimized to the hilt. I have used it on Mac, Windows and Linux and the experience is uniformly great. It feels native on every platform (responsiveness is not as snappy as vim but it’s good enough and I’m getting a lot of extra features in return, like remote for instance)
But it didn’t come for free. I can tell a lot of engineering hours were spent fixing little issues like different/conflicting keystroke mappings in all 3 platforms.
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VS Code is electron and it has been optimized to the hilt. I have used it on Mac, Windows and Linux and the experience is uniformly great. It feels native on every platform (responsiveness is not as snappy as vim but it’s good enough and I’m getting a lot of extra features in return, like remote for instance)
But it didn’t come for free. I can tell a lot of engineering hours were spent fixing little issues like different/conflicting keystroke mappings in all 3 platforms.