Comment by zerr

11 hours ago

Why such a simple UI utility app needed a VSCodium/Electron UI? The author seems to be well versed in Win32 API, so why not just learn the GUI part as well? It's not that hard.

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m417z  10 hours ago

The reason the Windhawk UI is based on VSCodium is mainly for the mod editing functionality. VSCodium with clangd are used for C++ intellisense out of the box.

You might say that many users don't care about mod development and don't need it. I agree, and I have it on my list to create a lite Windhawk version which doesn't depend on VSCodium.

Note that VSCodium is only used for the UI. When Windhawk is running in the background, its memory consumption is a couple of MB.

  • zerr  7 hours ago

    I believe those who write C++ have already installed their favorite IDE or editor.

  • accrual  8 hours ago

    Sounds like a reasonable trade off to me. Improves your dev experience and users still get a fast binary.

    Thanks for this by the way. Carrying the torch of Windows modding in the future!