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> Can we build a code editor fast enough that it doesn’t feel like you’re typing in a browser? Is this a jab at Atom? I like this.

zxcvcxz 11y ago
Funnily enough I just installed VS code and there is lag as I type things in. Also bad font rendering compared to the rest of my interface.
- moondev 11y ago
  smooth as butter on my macbook.
  - zxcvcxz 11y ago
    But you shouldn't need high end hardware to run a text editor.
    - deaddodo 11y ago
      I have a pretty generic Lenovo running Linux. VSCode is way more responsive (as OP says, smooth as butter) than Atom on it.
    - voxic11 11y ago
      It's interesting how people seem to have very different experiences with lag on vscode. I wonder if it's actually much more laggy on some system configurations. What are your running it on?
      - nbclark 11y ago
        I've noticed that VSCode + the JSX plugin, when run concurrently with webpack in watch mode, cause my machine to thrash. Working theory is that they are both watching the large node_modules folder, but yet to confirm.
      - carussell 11y ago
        Not surprising since most people have their own pool of extensions that they'll install but fail to mention any time the topic comes up. This is the "Firefox is beastly" strain of criticism all over again.
    - BafS 11y ago
      On my old macbook air (4 years old) VScode run way more smoothly and start 2 or 3 times faster than Atom.
- ASalazarMX 11y ago
  It is probably an issue with your video driver. No text editor should feel laggish right off the bat. The open source Radeon driver is prone to sluggishness.
zellyn 11y ago
Visual Studio Code is built on Electron, the same node.js+webUI system built for Atom. So I believe it's a jab at both.
- dingo_bat 11y ago
  But for some reason atom is much slower than vsc :/ I think it's a jab only at atom.
Eyas 11y ago
It has more to do with the Monaco editor (the web-based editor that you see in typescriptlang.org as well as VSCode). Monaco as an initiative has been around for longer than Atom, I think (?)
KirinDave 11y ago
Ask that to the IDEA and Eclipse folks. Certainly chrome feels smoother to me than either of them do on equivalent hardware. And if we pop over into desktop linux, it's even more one-sided towards browsers.

zxcvcxz 11y ago

Funnily enough I just installed VS code and there is lag as I type things in. Also bad font rendering compared to the rest of my interface.

moondev 11y ago
smooth as butter on my macbook.
- zxcvcxz 11y ago
  But you shouldn't need high end hardware to run a text editor.
  - deaddodo 11y ago
    I have a pretty generic Lenovo running Linux. VSCode is way more responsive (as OP says, smooth as butter) than Atom on it.
  - voxic11 11y ago
    It's interesting how people seem to have very different experiences with lag on vscode. I wonder if it's actually much more laggy on some system configurations. What are your running it on?
    - nbclark 11y ago
      I've noticed that VSCode + the JSX plugin, when run concurrently with webpack in watch mode, cause my machine to thrash. Working theory is that they are both watching the large node_modules folder, but yet to confirm.
    - carussell 11y ago
      Not surprising since most people have their own pool of extensions that they'll install but fail to mention any time the topic comes up. This is the "Firefox is beastly" strain of criticism all over again.
  - BafS 11y ago
    On my old macbook air (4 years old) VScode run way more smoothly and start 2 or 3 times faster than Atom.
ASalazarMX 11y ago
It is probably an issue with your video driver. No text editor should feel laggish right off the bat. The open source Radeon driver is prone to sluggishness.

zellyn 11y ago

Visual Studio Code is built on Electron, the same node.js+webUI system built for Atom. So I believe it's a jab at both.

dingo_bat 11y ago
But for some reason atom is much slower than vsc :/ I think it's a jab only at atom.

Eyas 11y ago

It has more to do with the Monaco editor (the web-based editor that you see in typescriptlang.org as well as VSCode). Monaco as an initiative has been around for longer than Atom, I think (?)

KirinDave 11y ago

Ask that to the IDEA and Eclipse folks. Certainly chrome feels smoother to me than either of them do on equivalent hardware. And if we pop over into desktop linux, it's even more one-sided towards browsers.