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vovavili 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Positron – A next-generation data science IDE

Weird that they've switched from Qt for RStudio to being a VSCode fork with Positron. RStudio was so loved precisely because it was lightweight and performant, which just isn't a possibility with something like VSCode.

more0RLess 11 months ago | [–]

RStudio Desktop moved to Electron several years ago, and no longer uses Qt/QtWebEngine.

(I'm a developer who works on the RStudio IDE for Posit and was heavily involved in the move to Electron)

bb86754 11 months ago | [–]

RStudio is still a web app. It's GWT with QtWebEngine whereas this is Electron. Not too different.

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