Damn, you’re right, it’s almost been a decade already. I honestly thought it was younger than that.

No, if you’re struggling to load 4.2 mb of text the issue is not electron.

Sure, it’s popular in one country, that doesn’t mske it mainstream. Fortnite or Minecraft are mainstream games. There’s no RTS that’s even close to the popularity of those games.

That’s not how this works, GPUs are fast because the kind of work they do is embarrassingly parallel and they have hundreds of cores. Loading a json file is not something that can be trivially parallelized. Also, zed use the gpu for rendering, not reading files.

Starcraft hasn’t been mainstream for over a decade.

How do you think modern games are made? Procedural generation is used all over the place to create materials and entire landscapes.

Elden Ring had great art direction, but I wouldn’t say it had great graphics.

Editor? Do you mean publisher?

Blizzard stopped making good games way before that.