Vscode: what about replacing electron with revery-ui?

Created on 27 Jan 2019 · 6Comments · Source: microsoft/vscode

Dear VsCode Team,

I salute you all due to fantastic jobs which you did for community with develop this great text editor.

But I would like to touch upon some points about 'the electron' framework performance issues, obviously this framework consumes so much CPU and memory power as you know and you try to reduce this consumption with your developing process with every month, unfortunately, I think it's just spend time and lots of engineering workforce loss. Because the problem is structural, and they come from directly the electron itself. What about replacing it with rever-ui? The Revery uses some approach to develop desktop app with web technologies like the Electron. Still, the Revery projects is absolutely new, but they proclaim very good solutions for future of cross-platform application and as I experienced it has is very much high performance and it can help you to proceed to the next step of VsCode.

Thank you.

Kind regards,

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magnusanatolius

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https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/first-app we need to replace gulp-atom-electron anyway and the current packaged electron always crashes there are 200+ issues about that with newer OS and Kernel and gulp-atom-electron is deprected now its all a hell

frank-dspeed on 27 Jan 2019

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why? performance is not answer... revery contain a lot of bugs, and need time to "mature"...

electron is ok, his performance is not that much bad.

Mlocik97-issues on 27 Jan 2019

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why? performance is not answer... revery contain a lot of bugs, and need time to "mature"...

electron is ok, his performance is not that much bad.

As above, I already mention that the revery is absolutely new which means with lots of issues of course. But my proposition is changing this 'electron' framework at the long term. It's just my personal idea. Also, just I supplicated to the team to think different alternatives to improve the text editor's performance. On the other hand the revery use two good technologies like ReasonML and ReasonReact which are supported by facebook with excellent tool chain. I suggest you, please take a look these technologies then come to the conclusion..

magnusanatolius on 27 Jan 2019

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frank-dspeed on 27 Jan 2019

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one will have to write a POC before we can verify the expected perf improvements