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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
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That's true, although from my experience is VSCode one of the very few electron apps that still start within fractions of a second, even with a handful of extensions. On my machine VSCode (with 38 extensions) is ready to use before the GNOME launch animation has finished.
That said, things are probably a bit different on machines with limited RAM.