Oh yeah, most of the time are just webapps presented as a full app in a store. There are good apps out there, but most of what you find are a waste of time, space, and resources.
I hate electron with a passion. Mandatory articles:
Thank you, added to the JS haters handbook
the most infuriating aspect of electron, is is that multi-billion (and even multi-trillion) dollar corporations think it’s ok practice to release desktop clients using electron, like wtf, each one of them can hire ten teams to build ten completely new desktop toolkits, let alone just design their applications to use native system tools 🤷♀️🤦♀️
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Both are full IDE’s though, to be fair. QtCreator even has a RAD for Qt which is really convenient.
Why do you say Qt for Linux isn’t good? All the Qt programs (and KDE) I’ve used on Linux worked great.
Both are full IDE’s though, to be fair.
I have no stake in this as I don’t use any of these applications, but what feature do they have that makes them IDEs while VSCode is not considered an IDE?
I use neither as well, although I did use QtCreator for a few weeks once, and its RAD (and vim mode) was nice for Qt dev.
The main features are the same across all IDE’s - debugger, code completion, refactoring, linting, Git integration, and build systems support. I’m sure there’s more, but like I said I don’t use them so I can’t name more.
Obviously VSCode can use plugins to do all this, same as many other editors. The line between IDE & text editor get blurry with plugins.
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VSCode is more functional and uses less resources than a comparable open source C++ editor, for example QT Creator […]
QT Creator is a full blown IDE. It would be more fair to compare it to Visual Studio, not Code.
At some point, where’s the line? What’s the feature that QT Creator has that VSCode doesn’t have? VSCode can compile, it can perform code analysis, it can debug, it can do code cleanup, you can search code by symbols.
I don’t use VSCode and I have no stake in this, but I’m not sure why it’s not considered a full blown IDE.
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Yeah, but VScode seems to be very efficiently optimised. On the other hand I have seen many electron apps be way too memory hungry and super slow for what they do (Signal desktop, bitwarden desktop…
Though it seems to be better today than 2-3 years ago.
I try to native apps as much as possible. If there isn’t one, I just use the web version of the app.
So much this.
Like why does a communication app need to take up 1GB of my RAM??? Look at telegram desktop for example. It’s written in QT and it has a very low RAM usage.
Not just about RAM, it’s that most popular electron apps (like discord) ships really old versions of electron, and the some other electron app on your system may need another version of electron
You end up CVEs and duplicates of electron
