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Visual Studio Code is based on electron. Electron does need a lot of resources. I would argue no or not something you really wanna do.
by sigi45 8y ago
Visual Studio Code is based on electron. Electron does need a lot of resources. I would argue no or not something you really wanna do.
- supernovae 8y agoI run VS code on the older surface pro 4 and it is fine. Electron isn't that slow.
- threeseed 8y agoWeird. Because on my Mac, VSCode only uses a few hundred MB. Quite fine on a machine with 2GB of RAM.
- jcelerier 8y ago> Weird. Because on my Mac, VSCode only uses a few hundred MB. Quite fine on a machine with 2GB of RAM. uhh.. what ? So, the OS in itself takes 700mb of RAM and that's being optimistic. OS + VSCode ~ 1 gigabyte of RAM used. In the remaining gigabyte, what can you do ? open firefox with three tabs, and maybe a music player if you're lucky ? what if you need to run a VM or two ?
- dagw 8y agoI run vs code on my old 2011 11" MBA and it never misses a beat. MS has done a really good job dealing with performance issues.
- jamesgeck0 8y agoIf VSCode is too heavy, Sublime Text runs like a dream on all sort of low end hardware.