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I remember when I tried Atom when it was hype, others loved it but it felt so slow compared to SublimeText and InelliJ. I wrote off Electron apps right then and there.

Then VSCode came along and showed that it wasn't all Electron's fault, there's a right way to do it. With faster platforms what you get is the room to do things wrong (inefficiently) with hardly anyone noticing.



My favourite text editor is VSCode.

I use sublime as a notepad.

Tixati is my favourite torrent client.


Me too. Sublime's always keep text even when rebooted without save makes it the ideal notepad.

Don't think I run any other Electron apps. Used to run Slack and Spotify but now just pin browser tabs. Some devs run Gitkraken which baffles me.


Yeaaa i also used git kraken to learn but now i find it bit bulky.


It depends on the hardware and what you're doing.

Admittedly I was running 10ish not-so-microservices on a dev laptop so couldn't really spare the cycles or RAM. Now on a desktop machine with 32GB and more cores I probably wouldn't notice but just don't like the idea of it from my previous experience.




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