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There's a bunch of Electron powered apps that feel really snappy, definitely faster and snappier than some default apps Apple ships on macOS these days.

Examples for me would be: VSCode and Linear



I should have put the example I was comparing to: VIM. I like VIM as an editor because it's extremely fast and works well once you adapt to it.

I'm sure VSCode and Linear are fast, nice, and fine. I just hated the lag/latency compared to my terminal text editor.


A few Electron apps are acceptable. But it's still very noticeable how less responsive they are compared to Win32 programs.




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