6 fast (native) alternatives for VSCode

VSCode's Electron-based architecture creates performance bottlenecks through high resource consumption, especially on low to mid-range hardware. Six native alternatives offer significantly better performance: ecode (C++, 50MB disk, 40MB RAM), CudaText (Free Pascal, 20MB disk), Lite (C/Lua, 1MB disk, ultraminimal), Lite XL (improved Lite with better features), Lapce (Rust, VSCode-like workflow, 60MB disk), and Zed (Rust, full VSCode replacement with AI features, 400MB disk). These editors use native rendering through OpenGL, SDL, wgpu, or platform-specific graphics APIs instead of Chromium, achieving 10-30x lower resource usage while providing comparable features through growing plugin ecosystems.