Is that really electron's fault though?

Compare vscode memory + cpu usage to whatever IDE you were using before that. It's probably an order of magnitude more efficient.

dijit a day ago | parent | next [-]

VS code is not an IDE, its more similar to Sublime.

In comparison to Sublime, it is indeed slower and more resource inefficient- however, it is free and good enough.

Not everything boils down to technical purity, there can be other important factors.

That used to be true but with plugins vscode really has eaten the whole IDE workflow for most people

	▲	dijit a day ago \| parent [-]
		That’s true of sublime text too. and vim, for that matter. Perhaps a useless comparison if one thing can be converted into something else; it doesn’t mean that the base of a thing is the thing that can be evolved into.

cozzyd 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't use vscode (vim user) but I'm horrified by the gigabytes of disk space wasted on shared servers by vscode remotes.