The thing that makes Microsoft's case particularly annoying is that they have demonstrated how they can develop half-decent Electron apps with VS Code, but have simply elected not to with anything that's not VS Code.
replyLike yes, I'd prefer native and MS can certainly afford to take that path, but they can't even be bothered to make sure that most of their Electron apps land on the upper half of the quality spectrum.
> they can develop half-decent Electron apps with VS Code,
replyOnly if you don't compare it with any native or quasi native editors like Notepad++ or Sublime text. And Emacs has been cross-platform for decades.
Also they bloated it to death. VSCodium gets you the same solid core app without the oodles and oodles of useless "features" Microsoft has bolted to it.
replyYikes. What apps have they been doing this with?
replyTurns out I was mistaken. Outlook was rewritten for Webview, not Electron. So still took a native application and turned it into web nonsense, but I got the specifics wrong.
replyRegardless, there are a bunch of new visual glitches in the release, with regressed performance all over the place.
What's extra egregious there is I do understand the logic because developing for Windows is such a fucking nightmare, that they're also responsible for.
replyI assure you, developing for competing platforms is also a fucking nightmare... that's something Microsoft has no monopoly on!
replyAnd I assure you, developing for Mac is a delight, and Linux is not so bad either. Windows, however, fucking disgrace.
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