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VSCode has become a mind-blowingly good editor. It's closing in on the power of heavy-weight IDEs with much better performance than some code editors (e.g. Atom
by xiaoma 10y ago
VSCode has become a mind-blowingly good editor. It's closing in on the power of heavy-weight IDEs with much better performance than some code editors (e.g. Atom), even.
- dotancohen 10y agoBoth VSCode and Atom are based on Electron, which is slow and battery-intensive as it is based on NodeJS. Are you saying that recent VSCode versions are as performant as, say, a C++ based editor or even (shudder) a Java based editor such as Jetbrains (Webstorm, etc.)? I last looked as VSCode (on a KDE 4 CentOS 7 desktop) about half a year ago, and it was terribly slow, even without extensions.
- tomduncalf 10y agoI would say VS Code is far more performant than the Jetbrains editors in my experience on a 2013 MBP. It may be that the Jetbrains editors are "doing more", but I always found them frustratingly sluggish - maybe a worthwhile trade off when using something like Scala but I personally couldn't deal with it for Javascript. I'd really recommend trying it again. On a performant machine, VS Code feels like a native app to me aside from a slightly slower start up time, whereas Atom is noticeably slow. On my bottom spec 12" Macbook the difference is more noticeable, but everything feels slow on there.
- xiaoma 10y agoVSCode runs circles around Atom and Jetbrains both.