<story><title>Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim</title><url>https://github.com/extr0py/oni</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>v-yadli</author><text>Are you expecting another Visual Studio or IntelliJ?&lt;p&gt;I think Electron is a very cost efficient dev environment. Can&amp;#x27;t really think of writing all this up in plain C++, wiring up native calls for various OSes, leveraging GPU, support rapid plugin dev&amp;#x2F;prototyping etc., etc. 
Once upon a time there was Qt, but now it&amp;#x27;s also doing qml+js..&lt;p&gt;Even if a NeoVim version of Eclipse (or whatever you think a &amp;#x27;more native IDE&amp;#x27; is) is rolled up, by a small team comparable to oni&amp;#x27;s, are you going to _pay_ for it?&lt;p&gt;Oni: 17 contributors, one main dev.
IntelliJ: 249 contributors, Github fails to load stats in one minute.&lt;p&gt;So why not stop complaining about the IDE and put efforts into optimizing electron-like platforms? There&amp;#x27;s still a fat headroom for improvements! (WebAssembly etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snarfy</author><text>The users matter, not the contributors.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Can&amp;#x27;t really think of writing all this up in plain C++, wiring up native calls...&lt;p&gt;Yes, it&amp;#x27;s more work and features will come slower, but the end result is a better application.  Latency matters.  It&amp;#x27;s extremely irritating that when I hold the delete key in an electron based application like visual studio code, that half my file continues to be deleted after I let go of the key.  The application can&amp;#x27;t keep up with the key repeat speed, and it&amp;#x27;s running on a high end workstation!  It&amp;#x27;s pathetically slow, even for all of the improvements that have been made over others like atom and brackets.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m excited by Oni, and it saddens me that the top comment is a negative comment complaining we should all just support electron.</text></comment>
<story><title>Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim</title><url>https://github.com/extr0py/oni</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>v-yadli</author><text>Are you expecting another Visual Studio or IntelliJ?&lt;p&gt;I think Electron is a very cost efficient dev environment. Can&amp;#x27;t really think of writing all this up in plain C++, wiring up native calls for various OSes, leveraging GPU, support rapid plugin dev&amp;#x2F;prototyping etc., etc. 
Once upon a time there was Qt, but now it&amp;#x27;s also doing qml+js..&lt;p&gt;Even if a NeoVim version of Eclipse (or whatever you think a &amp;#x27;more native IDE&amp;#x27; is) is rolled up, by a small team comparable to oni&amp;#x27;s, are you going to _pay_ for it?&lt;p&gt;Oni: 17 contributors, one main dev.
IntelliJ: 249 contributors, Github fails to load stats in one minute.&lt;p&gt;So why not stop complaining about the IDE and put efforts into optimizing electron-like platforms? There&amp;#x27;s still a fat headroom for improvements! (WebAssembly etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krageon</author><text>The whole idea of electron is that it is built on top of a deeply flawed framework. I can&amp;#x27;t speak for anyone else, but I cannot see the appeal to writing for something that is broken by design.</text></comment>