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Yes, it really is. I use VSCode as my daily driver because I can find an extension for anything. It's good for an electron app, but it's still an electron app.
by 0xffff2 8y ago
Yes, it really is. I use VSCode as my daily driver because I can find an extension for anything. It's good for an electron app, but it's still an electron app. I just tried opening a 20mb log file with similar results on CPU usage. The memory usage for that one file was background noise compared to the 1.9GB VSCode was already using with 2 workspaces and 10 normal source files open.
- falcrist 8y agoI think the issue might be the number or type of plugins involved. I work mostly with ASM, C, C#, and a bit of VB. Even with 3 separate folders open, intelligence running, a couple larger files (of order 100mb) open, ~20 tabs with source and CSV, and a few plugins to help readability, VSC is taking up "only" 700MB. Not exactly sleek compared to old-school editors, but not quite as bloated as your example. It's well worth noting that plugins like the C/C++ extension run separate instances for each relevant tab on every workspace. When you have many tabs and many plugins, it starts to eat up a significant amount of space.