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ori_b on April 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

> VSCode isn't slow. Atom is slow.

Could have fooled me.

iterateandgit on April 21, 2017 [–]

VScode runs like a dream on my hexacore/8GB/SSD desktop, but brings my atom/2GB/32GBeMMC based Asus Eeebook X205TA to its knees. Native programs for low power systems seems sound practice to me.

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