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0 pointsmurukesh_s5y ago0 comments

Couldn't agree more.. People who say Electron (on which VSCode is running) is bloated and is slow probably haven't worked on full fledged IDEs using Java.. they consume memory in Gigabytes, are slower, at least appear to be slower, despite using native UI and takes a lot longer to open.

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luckylion5y ago

How often do you open your IDE though?

I switched form VSCode to PHPStorm half a year ago, and while it feels a bit slower, the improvements are so unbelievable worth it for me. It does have a taste for memory, but then again, it easily saves me a lot of time each month, so just throwing RAM at it was a no-brainer for me.

BrandoElFollito5y ago

I use PyCharm and tried several times to such to vscode. I forced myself to only use vscode for 10 days.

I was relieved when I switched back to PyCharm.

Vscode is nice but still quite far away from some good IDEs.

tracker15y ago

Depends... I'll open/close a few times a day as I touch several projects. I can use VS Code for everything from db/sql, react, node and c# (.net core) projects. I also have used it for a little rust and golang.

As to the RAM, it's using around 1.2gb between vs code and the connecting server (WSL2), multiple isntances vary... but with the number of containers and VMs I'm running, I'm generally well over 16gb of use, and I have 64gb on my desktop. So even without VS Code, I have trouble on a 16gb system.

luckylion5y ago

Yeah, IntelliJ-based IDEs are hungry, but even if mobile, I figure I'd just spend the extra money to get plenty of RAM, it's that good (to me at least).

I usually run 3-5 instances for different projects and it'll hover around 3gb RAM, but it appears that they share a lot of memory, closing one or opening an additional project has no visible impact.

nicoburns5y ago

In my case, often several times an hour. I work across 6-10 dofferent repositories. Opening them all at once is impractical, so being able to open each of the them quickly is quite important.

rhlsthrm5y ago

Have you tried multiple repositories in a VSCode workspace? It does a great job of managing multiple repos, git diffs, etc.

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AnIdiotOnTheNet5y ago

Or they have worked on full-fledged IDE's like VS 6, which starts up quickly and is super responsive even on period hardware.

fendy30025y ago

Oh how the tables are turned... Coming from VS2008-2010, it's weird to see someone said Visual Studio is fast

Xelbair5y ago

VS2019 is pretty damn good.

I use it daily for .net coding, while i use VS code for everything else.

rafaelvasco5y ago

VS2019 is pretty fast, provided you don't use too much plugins.

saagarjha5y ago

Eclipse isn't a particularly good user of Cocoa, is it?

zamalek5y ago

It does something completely its own (and horrible/slow) on Windows (possibly one of the 6534 equally awful Java UI packages), so I can't imagine it does anything better with iOS.

p_l5y ago

Eclipse uses SWT, which actually piggybacks on native toolkits, though I don't know if it doesn't go through some ancient version of GTK in the process.

AWT/Swing based IntelliJ manages to be much, much faster in comparison.

hellofunk5y ago

I think you mean macOS.

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luckylion5y ago

How often do you open your IDE though?

BrandoElFollito5y ago

I use PyCharm and tried several times to such to vscode. I forced myself to only use vscode for 10 days.

I was relieved when I switched back to PyCharm.

Vscode is nice but still quite far away from some good IDEs.

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luckylion5y ago

Yeah, IntelliJ-based IDEs are hungry, but even if mobile, I figure I'd just spend the extra money to get plenty of RAM, it's that good (to me at least).

I usually run 3-5 instances for different projects and it'll hover around 3gb RAM, but it appears that they share a lot of memory, closing one or opening an additional project has no visible impact.

nicoburns5y ago

In my case, often several times an hour. I work across 6-10 dofferent repositories. Opening them all at once is impractical, so being able to open each of the them quickly is quite important.

rhlsthrm5y ago

Have you tried multiple repositories in a VSCode workspace? It does a great job of managing multiple repos, git diffs, etc.

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AnIdiotOnTheNet5y ago

Or they have worked on full-fledged IDE's like VS 6, which starts up quickly and is super responsive even on period hardware.

fendy30025y ago

Oh how the tables are turned... Coming from VS2008-2010, it's weird to see someone said Visual Studio is fast

Xelbair5y ago

VS2019 is pretty damn good.

I use it daily for .net coding, while i use VS code for everything else.

rafaelvasco5y ago

VS2019 is pretty fast, provided you don't use too much plugins.

saagarjha5y ago

Eclipse isn't a particularly good user of Cocoa, is it?

zamalek5y ago

It does something completely its own (and horrible/slow) on Windows (possibly one of the 6534 equally awful Java UI packages), so I can't imagine it does anything better with iOS.

p_l5y ago

Eclipse uses SWT, which actually piggybacks on native toolkits, though I don't know if it doesn't go through some ancient version of GTK in the process.

AWT/Swing based IntelliJ manages to be much, much faster in comparison.

hellofunk5y ago

I think you mean macOS.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse