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I have used windows since 20 years. I distinctly recall it becoming slower and painful over time despite using more powerful hardware.

But hey that could be nostalgia, right? We can't run win xp in today's world. Not is it recommend with lots of software ot being supported on win xp.

The same is case for Android. Android 4 has decent performance, then android 5 came and single handedly reduced performance and battery life. And again you can't go back due to newer apps no longer supporting old android version.

This is also seen with apple where newer os version is painful on older devices.

So, on what basis do you fairly say that "modern apps are slow"? That's why I say to use faster software as reference. I have linux and windows dual boot on same machine. An dthen difference in performance is night and day

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mustache_kimono 4 days ago | parent [-]

> So, on what basis do you fairly say that "modern apps are slow"? That's why I say to use faster software as reference. I have linux and windows dual boot on same machine. An dthen difference in performance is night and day

Then you're not comparing old and new software. You're comparing apples and oranges. Neovim is comparable to VS Code in only the most superficial terms.

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troupo 3 days ago | parent [-]

> Neovim is comparable to VS Code in only the most superficial terms.

Oh no. It can be compared in more than superficial terms. E.g. their team struggled to create a performant terminal in VS Code. Because the tech they chose (and the tech a lot of the world is using) is incapable of outputting text to the screen fast enough. Where "fast enough" is "with minimal acceptable speed which is still hundreds of times slower than a modern machine is capable of": https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-rend...

	▲	mustache_kimono 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> E.g. their team struggled to create a performant terminal in VS Code. WTF are you talking about? Neovim doesn't implement a terminal?