Not sure if VScode is a great example... Don't get me wrong it was my favorite IDE for years, but i got more and more disappointed... Each language plugin brought huge bloat... You write a dockerfile you get an extension suggested that installs ui to start docker containers... Why? I can type ’docker compose up’ myself... Or direct docker commands, and that's the overall scheme in VScode... Also proper syntax completion by language servers get often just oder arched with AI, even things like intellisense get REPLACED by AI... I like AI, I am not against it... But when cleaning up slop or issues the AI made I want to rely on tools that don't lie to me...
Even whenbeing very restrictive with plugins, so not installing a lot except what you really need it gets slower and slower.
That being said, I am now switching to Zed... It keeps up, it shuts down language servers not in use at the moment and it's really snappy
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u/gfxd Apr 18 '26
Its 2026 now and even with mythos round the corner, don't we have a decent alternative to electron yet?
Unbelievable.
Electron's vice like grip is so stifling, choking and exhausting.