Programmer Humor

Text editors are cool and all but it's literally impossible to find a real IDE that doesn't use AI.

the problem isn't electron, the problem is that A) html is the only truly cross platform UI framework and B) that html (and the web stack in general) has way too many features and is way too complex, because Google's been bolting features onto it for decades.

rust_analyzer takes 16GB of ram though so good luck actually working on a rust project

(Semi kidding, the project I work on is very big)

LOL.

Enjoyable little irony personally for me, as when I asked an LLM to churn out a readme for my fin project ( posted on lemmy here ), it proposed one of fin's advantages that could push fin into the notable category: "Performance niche - might be faster than Electron-based editors for simple tasks". Maybe I should change that to "save a fortune on RAM compared to Electron-based editors".

Bunch of people complaining about electron in this thread but I'm happy it exists.

Without electron you would get way fewer Linux apps and often no GUI to go with them.

The RAM usage is high sometimes but I have 128gb and unused RAM is wasted RAM. I don't care how much something is using until it starts to swap or gets oom.

Electron apps existed and were a standard years before this current memory shortage. There is no connection there.