IDE / editor performance and bloat

> However, someone wanting to make $APP work on raspberry pi 1 level of hardware, and complain to the LLM that electron is so laggy as to be unusable, then I also imagine the LLM is capable of suggestion rewriting $APP with $FOO technology that is the tight low-memory CPU-sipping version of $APP

lelanthran · Aug 20, 2026 · comment in “Extensible Software in the age of LLMs”

As far as that part goes, you're right. However, someone wanting to make $APP work on raspberry pi 1 level of hardware, and complain to the LLM that electron is so laggy as to be unusable, then I also imagine the LLM is capable of suggestion rewriting $APP with $FOO technology that is the tight low-memory CPU-sipping version of $APP.

fragmede · Aug 20, 2026 · comment in “Extensible Software in the age of LLMs”

We sometimes encounter a bug that turns the view gray (an Electron memory overflow issue in VS Code), which is annoying because nothing is visible.

olejorgenb · Aug 16, 2026 · comment in “Is this the end of human code review?”

Yes, however, a small change of the cursor size doesn't work for me for the Neo lag (idk about the TV app).

retroplasma · Jun 24, 2026 · comment in “"Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds”

Terrible fix but it's a fix that's minimally-invasive and addresses a bug that causes a disproportionate annoyance to the fix. I can imagine your cursor lagging is something that is extremely annoying over time.

nusl · Jun 24, 2026 · comment in “"Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds”

The whole point of extensibility is that you, or your company, can program what you need from your IDE, without having to make a whole IDE from scratch. I have since moved on to making my own IDE, mostly because I hate Electron and its >1gb memory footprint, but vscode served me so much better than anything else for years, without installing a single rando's extension.

applfanboysbgon · May 20, 2026 · comment in “GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension”

The "million row limit" in Excel is a relic. Even when using tools like VS Code or Notepad++ for large files, the memory pressure often makes the UI unusable.

olllo · Apr 7, 2026 · comment in “[dead]”

These assertions are not interdependent, they are just observations of the app. The article is still not arguing Electron can only be slow/buggy (though it has previously asserted it must be bloated by nature) nor is the app asserting why Anthropic has made these design choices yet.

zamadatix · Feb 23, 2026 · comment in “Why is Claude an Electron app?”

This means your vim, jetbrains, whatever muscle memory from a lifetime of professional dev work becomes useless, and you have to use a gimped text editor worse than notepad++. You can use an external editor, but then lots of things don't work very well, scenes get randomly corrupted, hot reloading doesn't work, etc.

eudamoniac · Jan 27, 2026 · comment in “Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow”