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0 pointshappymellon3y ago0 comments

> The fact that browser apps replaced desktop apps eventually kind of proves that the same on mobile is inevitable once computing power and efficiency is sufficient

Let me know when the power is there for the desktops. My MacBook M1 Pro chokes a lot due to running Teams, Slack, VS Code all wanting to be desktop webapps and are highly inefficient.

I have to use a proper desktop to get everything running smoothly together.

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adam_arthur3y ago

VS Code seems quite fast to me

There's a reason software trends towards higher level, less performant abstractions over time. The takes about chrome being a memory hog or electron being inherently slow are very tired at this point

saagarjha3y ago

You might be tired of them, but that doesn't mean they're wrong.

adam_arthur3y ago

And garbage collected languages are slower than managed ones. Should we avoid garbage collected languages for all software then?

It's just demonstrates a very poor grasp of what actually matters in the world. And the performance gap is greatly exaggerated.

Most people would agree VS Code is very snappy, and it's written in JS and browser based. There's no inherent reason they have to be slow. And we don't double the RAM in computers every few years to leave it unused

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happymellonOP3y ago

The biggest problem with VS Code is that it doesn't actually do anything, all functionality is performed via plugins which have dramatically different performance.

So most of the time people are not discussing the same application experience. VS Code with nothing installed isn't that bad, once you start actually using it for code then performance drops off a cliff.

EugeneOZ3y ago

And my M1 Pro runs them just fine.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointshappymellon3y ago0 comments

> The fact that browser apps replaced desktop apps eventually kind of proves that the same on mobile is inevitable once computing power and efficiency is sufficient

Let me know when the power is there for the desktops. My MacBook M1 Pro chokes a lot due to running Teams, Slack, VS Code all wanting to be desktop webapps and are highly inefficient.

I have to use a proper desktop to get everything running smoothly together.

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adam_arthur3y ago

VS Code seems quite fast to me

There's a reason software trends towards higher level, less performant abstractions over time. The takes about chrome being a memory hog or electron being inherently slow are very tired at this point

saagarjha3y ago

You might be tired of them, but that doesn't mean they're wrong.

adam_arthur3y ago

And garbage collected languages are slower than managed ones. Should we avoid garbage collected languages for all software then?

It's just demonstrates a very poor grasp of what actually matters in the world. And the performance gap is greatly exaggerated.

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happymellonOP3y ago

The biggest problem with VS Code is that it doesn't actually do anything, all functionality is performed via plugins which have dramatically different performance.

EugeneOZ3y ago

And my M1 Pro runs them just fine.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse