[thepostman0]

Not everyone wants to edit in a browser, maybe many people can't due to their computers spec.

[IshKebab]

VSCode runs a desktop app as well as in a browser. You knew that though.

And I use VSCode on a 10 year old desktop. VSCode itself is very light. It's the extensions that sometimes have performance issues. Microsoft's C++ one is by far the worst offender.

[xigoi]

The parent meant that the “desktop app” is actually a browser.