Yeah, it is. My comment was not meant to bash C at all - C was my first programming language, and I think that some truly excellent software has been, and continues to be, written in C. My point was that "software isn't as good as it was in my day, when everything was in C or assembly!" is a rather rose-saturated view of the past, and ignores the mountains of good software that's been written with more modern languages.
In fact, I pretty much agree with your main point. VS Code, for example, is an electron app that starts up instantaneously, doesn't slow down when dozens of extensions are added to it, has a ton of functionality, and maintains a memory footprint of about 26MB when I have a 20k file project open. Atom is a bloated monstrosity compared to it, yet they're based on the same app wrapper package... so obviously the problem isn't actually electron (or, at least, not all electron).
Yeah, it is. My comment was not meant to bash C at all - C was my first programming language, and I think that some truly excellent software has been, and continues to be, written in C. My point was that "software isn't as good as it was in my day, when everything was in C or assembly!" is a rather rose-saturated view of the past, and ignores the mountains of good software that's been written with more modern languages.
In fact, I pretty much agree with your main point. VS Code, for example, is an electron app that starts up instantaneously, doesn't slow down when dozens of extensions are added to it, has a ton of functionality, and maintains a memory footprint of about 26MB when I have a 20k file project open. Atom is a bloated monstrosity compared to it, yet they're based on the same app wrapper package... so obviously the problem isn't actually electron (or, at least, not all electron).
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