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VSCode team is killing it! Literally every month its tangibly making the product better. I still use Sublime occasionally on really large files as its performan

by Zaheer 10y ago

VSCode team is killing it! Literally every month its tangibly making the product better. I still use Sublime occasionally on really large files as its performance is so good but for most things VSCode is my go-to!

msoad 10y ago
Yes, opening large files is not too bad but using a multi-selector with more than 300 matches is pretty much impossible in VSCode.
- tehbeard 10y ago
  It's been impossible in pretty much any electron app I've tried. It's not a vscode only issue. At that point using find/replace or opening in sublime is a better option.
blunte 10y ago
Agreed, and I am becoming quite a fan of their work and their direction. One concern I have is that they don't make it so feature rich that it becomes slow and overly complex - or at least be smart about which features to push out to extensions.
- SiVal 10y ago
  I hope they'll carefully architect it (both base product and extension system) so that heavy features can be turned off, either dynamically (when not needed), statically (in preferences), or both. If they do so, I'd be happy to have them add such features, because I could optimize the speed / (other) features tradeoff for myself and adjust it for different situations. This isn't a consumer product, and it's not a "word processor". It's a tool for builders, so conventional wisdom about how great designers make the decisions instead of dumping them into preferences don't apply. Great designers of tools like these figure out clever ways of helping users better customize their toolbox.
alistairSH 10y ago
I just started playing with it earlier today. I'm a long-time Visual Studio user and VSCode is good. I'll have to give it more time, but so far, I can see myself using it for stuff outside the office (work is .Net, so I'll be sticking with VS).
- bonesinger 10y ago
  I like to use VSCode to open C# or web.config files, basically any .net related file since its pretty quick and you get all the highlighting.
  - alistairSH 10y ago
    Good plan, I'll have to set it as default app for code files. VS is SOOOOOOOO slow when it's not already open.
    - pawadu 10y ago
      Maybe its time for a client/server mode like emacs?
guiambros 10y ago
I'm pretty impressed as well. I'm using as a IDE/debugger for Python code and running under Linux, and works very well. The debugger is not as solid as PyCharm, but the editor is certainly better. It became my second go-to editor, right after Sublime. Kudos to Microsoft for releasing as a free tool, and multi-platform.
inertial 10y ago
Kinda surprised that every version bump gets a lot of love on HN [1]. How does it compare in terms of memory usage w.r.t sublime ? I've a sublime project open for months that has never had any impact on system performance and it stays within 70MB RAM. Is VS Code even close ? [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=visual%20studio%20code&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=visual%20studio%20code&sort=by...
- anilgulecha 10y ago
  It's because of the non-fluffy release posts. They have detailed list of new features, with good GIF demos of new features. How can one not like a release post like that?
- SiVal 10y ago
  Kinda surprised that every version bump gets a lot of love on HN I'm glad it does. Each version bump, I come over the HN to check out what people have to say. It's an extremely useful tool to me and is developing rapidly. I'm using it, but I don't have as much time as I'd like to study it, so I glance through the comments to see if someone mentions something I'm not aware of that I should know. I could get more about the product specifically from a good VSCode forum, but they don't seem to have one. A Github Issues page is not a proper user forum. (Maybe they have one now--as I said, I don't keep up as well as I'd like.) But HN will tell me things about VSCode in a larger context, so I would probably want to keep reading comments here even if VSCode had a proper user forum.
- reaktivo 10y ago
  For reference, I usually get 45 - 50MB ram usage on VS Code.
  - tutanchamun 10y ago
    On what operating system and with how many tabs open if I might ask? With 6 tabs open (5 html files, 1 css file) and two extensions installed I get ~230 MB on Windows.
richie5um 10y ago
I love the speed of Sublime, and still use it sometimes. But, the vast majority of time is in VSCode.

by Zaheer 10y ago

msoad 10y ago

Yes, opening large files is not too bad but using a multi-selector with more than 300 matches is pretty much impossible in VSCode.

tehbeard 10y ago
It's been impossible in pretty much any electron app I've tried. It's not a vscode only issue. At that point using find/replace or opening in sublime is a better option.

blunte 10y ago

Agreed, and I am becoming quite a fan of their work and their direction. One concern I have is that they don't make it so feature rich that it becomes slow and overly complex - or at least be smart about which features to push out to extensions.

SiVal 10y ago
I hope they'll carefully architect it (both base product and extension system) so that heavy features can be turned off, either dynamically (when not needed), statically (in preferences), or both. If they do so, I'd be happy to have them add such features, because I could optimize the speed / (other) features tradeoff for myself and adjust it for different situations. This isn't a consumer product, and it's not a "word processor". It's a tool for builders, so conventional wisdom about how great designers make the decisions instead of dumping them into preferences don't apply. Great designers of tools like these figure out clever ways of helping users better customize their toolbox.

alistairSH 10y ago

I just started playing with it earlier today. I'm a long-time Visual Studio user and VSCode is good. I'll have to give it more time, but so far, I can see myself using it for stuff outside the office (work is .Net, so I'll be sticking with VS).

bonesinger 10y ago
I like to use VSCode to open C# or web.config files, basically any .net related file since its pretty quick and you get all the highlighting.
- alistairSH 10y ago
  Good plan, I'll have to set it as default app for code files. VS is SOOOOOOOO slow when it's not already open.
  - pawadu 10y ago
    Maybe its time for a client/server mode like emacs?

guiambros 10y ago

I'm pretty impressed as well. I'm using as a IDE/debugger for Python code and running under Linux, and works very well. The debugger is not as solid as PyCharm, but the editor is certainly better. It became my second go-to editor, right after Sublime. Kudos to Microsoft for releasing as a free tool, and multi-platform.

inertial 10y ago

Kinda surprised that every version bump gets a lot of love on HN [1]. How does it compare in terms of memory usage w.r.t sublime ? I've a sublime project open for months that has never had any impact on system performance and it stays within 70MB RAM. Is VS Code even close ? [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=visual%20studio%20code&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=visual%20studio%20code&sort=by...

anilgulecha 10y ago
It's because of the non-fluffy release posts. They have detailed list of new features, with good GIF demos of new features. How can one not like a release post like that?
SiVal 10y ago
Kinda surprised that every version bump gets a lot of love on HN I'm glad it does. Each version bump, I come over the HN to check out what people have to say. It's an extremely useful tool to me and is developing rapidly. I'm using it, but I don't have as much time as I'd like to study it, so I glance through the comments to see if someone mentions something I'm not aware of that I should know. I could get more about the product specifically from a good VSCode forum, but they don't seem to have one. A Github Issues page is not a proper user forum. (Maybe they have one now--as I said, I don't keep up as well as I'd like.) But HN will tell me things about VSCode in a larger context, so I would probably want to keep reading comments here even if VSCode had a proper user forum.
reaktivo 10y ago
For reference, I usually get 45 - 50MB ram usage on VS Code.
- tutanchamun 10y ago
  On what operating system and with how many tabs open if I might ask? With 6 tabs open (5 html files, 1 css file) and two extensions installed I get ~230 MB on Windows.

richie5um 10y ago

I love the speed of Sublime, and still use it sometimes. But, the vast majority of time is in VSCode.