> The Electron-hating is getting a bit tired and predictable - yes, it's very easy to create Electron apps that perform terribly (e.g. Slack), but it's also possible to create performant, cross-platform apps.

well if you know postgres, you will know that at first there was pgadmin3, which was really fast and a really good/decent application.

however somebody tought it is a good idea to redo everything and build some kind of new application, which is a client/server application and the client is actually a javascript application which is hosted in a desktop application or directly in the browser. However the desktop application is just garbage.

Yes, I have to agree with this - pgAdmin 3 was a decent tool, whereas pgAdmin 4 is... an abomination.

Microsoft's VS Code is a good example, when compared against other Electron apps.

When compared against native applications, not at all.

I use it sometimes, because I have to, that is all.

> When compared against native applications, not at all

I disagree. Compared to Visual Studio, for example, VS Coe flies.

I realise they have very different feature sets though, so it might not be the best comparison - but I even switched from a native Windows text editor (Notepad2) to VS Code because startup time is almost as fast as Notepad2, and in-use it's just as performant (sometimes moreso, such as regex on a large file) but with far more features. And it's cross-platform, so I can use the same VS Code I'm used to on Windows and my MBP.

Naturally it is not the best comparison, I would be really impressed to see VS Code fly with all the capabilities that VS has to offer.

Notepad++ and Sublime are instantaneous versus VSCode.

Don't have Sublime installed, but just tested VSCode vs Notepad++ on my computer. While Notepad++ was, maybe, half a second faster opening to a empty text file than VSCode, VSCode was a couple of seconds faster opening a large SQL file.