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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

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.
  - reaktivo 10y ago
    On macOS, 9 tabs (js), 8 extensions. 55MB
    - tutanchamun 10y ago
      Thanks. Is unix (maybe specifically MacOS) just that more efficient, or doesn't it count multiple processes?
      - kwood 10y ago
        It's not, OP didn't count the other processes in (they are listed seperatly in Activity Monitor). VSCode needs roughly the same amount of RAM on macOS.
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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.
- reaktivo 10y ago
  On macOS, 9 tabs (js), 8 extensions. 55MB
  - tutanchamun 10y ago
    Thanks. Is unix (maybe specifically MacOS) just that more efficient, or doesn't it count multiple processes?
    - kwood 10y ago
      It's not, OP didn't count the other processes in (they are listed seperatly in Activity Monitor). VSCode needs roughly the same amount of RAM on macOS.
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