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VS Code Can Do That?
- Cenk 8y agoPreviously discussed (270 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16891784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16891784
- arjun27 8y agoThanks for sharing. The page is updated every week, so there’s a bunch of new stuff in it
- jenscow 8y agoCan it do... - Multiple Windows? - Telemetry opt-in? - Consume less than 50MB with no document open? - Require < 5 different processes?
- matchai 8y ago- Multiple Windows Yes. https://stackoverflow.com/a/29965036 https://stackoverflow.com/a/29965036 - Telemetry opt-in Yes. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di...
- Nullabillity 8y ago> Yes. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di.. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di.... That's opt-out, not opt-in.
- nsriv 8y agoSo...opt-out then.
- derrikcurran 8y agoIt supports multiple windows. Telemetry is opt-out. I personally don't care but I understand the concern. Why would 50mb or even 500mb be a problem? So many people are concerned about memory and I don't understand. I never have memory issues and I seriously abuse my conputers, but RAM is cheap anyway. I'd much rather see development efforts be focused on great features than memory optimization. Features that will save much more time than a RAM upgrade costs. I can't even begin to imagine why number of processes would matter to anyone.
- wbercx 8y agoI think it's important to appreciate that while RAM itself is cheap, the same is not always true for upgrading it. A lot of people these days use laptops where RAM is soldered on, and is not upgradeable after purchase. And they may not have had a choice if the machine was provided by the workplace. Trying to keep RAM usage low doesn't hurt anyone. What I personally care more about is CPU usage, because it affects the battery life of my laptops. Why is VS Code using 10-20% CPU when I have it open in the background? This behavior seems to come and go with each VS Code update, even without additional extensions installed.
- derrikcurran 8y agoThose are great points. Trying to keep RAM usage low doesn't hurt anyone. It depends on the degree. It's one thing to be cognizant of RAM usage throughout development but it's another to trade time that could otherwise be spent on features, usability, security, or more impactful optimizations, like CPU. The bulk of a modern app's footprint, RAM included, often comes from outside dependencies. Abstraction overhead. It's the norm to trade app performance for dev performance and I believe it's good for progress.
- ummonk 8y agoHave you checked your extensions? I just opened VS Code with a moderate sized codebase (Flask), and then clicked out of it and watched the CPU usage go to 0% in task manager (it was ~2-3% when I had VS Code focused).
- ummonk 8y agoIt uses about 215MB for me, 6 processes. I don't see why process count matters.