War Story: We Migrated from Monaco Editor to Slate 0.90 and Cut Editor Load Time by 40%

In Q3 2024, our collaborative IDE’s editor load time averaged 1.8 seconds on mid-range Windows laptops—a number that cost us 12% of new user signups, per our product analytics. After migrating from Monaco Editor 0.45.0 to Slate 0.90.2, we cut that lo...