Comment by wiseowise
2 days ago
> has multiple bits that drop down to lower-level solutions to improve performance
Such as?
> VS Code is very much a special case and not the least bit representative of the typical Electron app.
And Obsidian, and Discord, and Logseq, and Notion, and Figma, and Slack, and Postman, and Insomnia, and so on, and so. Oh wait, so it's not only VS Code?
> Such as?
At minimum it uses ripgrep for file searching, which is written in Rust but I thought I read blog posts about other parts in the past.
> And Obsidian, and Discord, and Logseq, and Notion, and Figma, and Slack, and Postman, and Insomnia, and so on, and so.
Out of the mentions in that list I’ve used, only Obsidian feels comparatively responsive to VS Code. Notion and Slack in particular are slow and can get super bogged down. Discord and Figma sit somewhere in between.