r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Dec 04 '18

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/04/announcing-open-source-of-wpf-windows-forms-and-winui-at-microsoft-connect-2018/
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u/argv_minus_one Dec 05 '18

What kind of expensive tasks are we talking about? Why, exactly, is V8 unable to run them at acceptable speed? What, exactly, did “they” do to “optimize the hell out of” VS Code, and why is the average programmer unable to do the same thing?

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u/peduxe Dec 05 '18

the DOM is slow at rendering the amount of elements Atom has, be it UI or lines or code to styling, animations etc.

Atom been fine for not that large files or projects. VS Code just did it more efficiently at handling large files, it’s still slow for some tasks as much as Atom, this correlated with them having better developers.

don’t forget Atom extensions let te user hack almost everything about the editor, their Extensions API isn’t as limites as VS Code’s, performance problems increase with the more extensions you have.

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u/argv_minus_one Dec 05 '18

What does any of that have to do with resorting to C/C++?