PSS (Potential Set Size) numbers are additive unlike RSS, so we can sum them and get around 291 Mb of RAM. To test it myself, I started the program (with -no-sandbox because it requires root privileges otherwise) and measured memory usage using smem: How can a whole Electron app take just 74 Mb? The numbers don't add up. I unpacked Linux version of the app, Electron binary is 120 Mb, resources.pak is 8 Mb, ICU library is 10 Mb. And it's pointless to complain about people using X technology when it has no truly viable alternatives. But I've also got to concede that Electron has accomplished something that everyone else has consistently failed at: Delivering decent cross-platform GUI applications. I resolutely avoid working on things with UIs at work, probably to the detriment of my career, just to avoid programming in JavaScript. It's really a proxy war about JavaScript. I'll come out and say it: I suspect that, deep down, this argument is not really about memory or anything like that. Meld, a GTK+ app that doesn't do nearly as much, consumes 100MB just sitting idle, which is twice as much as the Electron app does. IntelliJ, a non-Electron cross-platform app, is consuming 3 GB of RAM. (For my purposes, they're at feature parity, except that I don't like vscode's Java plugin). Right now I've got both vscode and IntelliJ IDEA open at the same time. I just decided to go and give it a quick look-see. I'm also not sure you can just assume that an Electron app will be a giant memory hog compared to the alternatives. Other people choosing to use different apps is consuming their computer's memory, not yours. If you want to keep your RAM usage light, go ahead and use vim. I tried to copy paste a few paragraphs of text a few times, and once it turned into this strange highlighted text that when I started a new paragraph, deleted all of my newlines.
How are you supposed to do this? Sometimes it replaces * with \*, sometimes not.
Try pasting in 10 * characters and you'll see that it's almost impossible. Highlighting and pasting text is totally unpredictable. Here's a screenshot comparing Atom (top) to Mark Text (bottom):
It's blurry and smudged on my non-retina display due to not using subpixel smoothing.
This involved going to OSX's settings dialog and finding the Security & Privacy window to unblock. Why isn't there a demo online that I can try in my web browser? Isn't this supposed to be a simple electron app?Īnyways, I went to the trouble of unblocking it.
#Macdown plugins vim mac osx
Due to being unsigned, Mac OSX blocked running this web app. I decided to give it a try, and it's almost a 100MB to download. Another was the halfway-in-between (shows both syntax and rendering) Abricotine ( ) which has the sense to mention it as the main feature: “Markdown editor with inline preview” and “you can preview your document directly in the text editor rather than in a side pane”. Of course, to someone else it may not be a big deal.īefore seeing this just now, Typora ( ) was the only Markdown editor I had encountered that does this, but it is not open-source. This I've found to help enormously with being distraction-free (while still having the peace of mind from not creating an irrecoverable binary blob). The important feature worth mentioning (more than “simple and elegant” and “focused on speed and usability”) is that it directly renders the Markdown (in the editor itself, not in a separate pane or window), giving a WYSIWYG feel while still being backed by a plain-text (markdown) format that if needed can be edited directly (even in an different editor).
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