> There’s probably a niche of people who don’t like the potentially poor performance of Electron-based editors
Haven't noticed any performance problems with VS Code, since I started using it everyday maybe 3 years ago. I switched from Intellij based editors to VS Code and before that I used vim for a decade.
600 MB memory usage with just one small text file open IS a performance problem imo (but I agree the app doesn't feel slow).
Especially on MACs were RAM is priced at a premium.
On Windows I developed a small program that sums the ram usage of my browsers and Electron apps I use. Between Firefox, Chromium and VSCode it's frequently around 4 GB of ram ! That's insane just to basically browse text.
Haven't noticed any performance problems with VS Code, since I started using it everyday maybe 3 years ago. I switched from Intellij based editors to VS Code and before that I used vim for a decade.