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How exactly it is lightweight when it carries a copy of Chrome browser in the background? Jut at idle with no files opened it uses 600 Mb of memory. PS: it is a
by Yizahi 7y ago
How exactly it is lightweight when it carries a copy of Chrome browser in the background? Jut at idle with no files opened it uses 600 Mb of memory.
PS: it is a nice software which I also use extensively, but Electron is an abomination, Flash of 21 century.
- sigzero 7y agoIt's not "lightweight" at all. lol
- w0m 7y agoCompared to say, intellij; it just feels lightweight. It's nicely optimized at least.
- rhodysurf 7y agoJetBrains IDEs are all by far the most clunky of all the choices.
- lmm 7y agoYou clearly haven't used Eclipse (and I say this as someone who chooses to use Eclipse).
- rhodysurf 7y agotrue... sorry I forgot that monster still exists
- zo1 7y agoThey're also leaps and bounds better as IDEs than VSCode. I'd gladly exchange some "clunky"ness for a better experience and more features driven by a proper GUI.
- solarkraft 7y agoI use both Visual Studiio and JetBrains Rider at work. Rider has much less loading time and way fewer micro/macro stutters.
- 0x01101 7y agoJust opened it up on my machine (2019 Macbook Pro)- 65MB with no files opened. No idea how you're getting to almost 10x that. Edit: My bad, apparently I didn't count all processes.
- lvillani 7y agoYou have to take into account the helper and renderer processes. A freshly launched instance takes around 250 MB on my system. It consumes more as you open files that trigger lazy loading of additional extensions. Still less than other IDEs, though.
- danieldk 7y agoInteresting. I also just opened it on my MacBook Pro it uses ~300MB of memory with 5 extensions. emacs with about half a gazillion packages uses 91MB.
- jasode 7y ago10 minutes ago, I downloaded the latest VSCode 1.43 and installed it on a fresh macOS 10.15.3. Launching it with no files open, the total private+shared memory adds up to ~300 MB. Screenshot of macOS Activity Monitor: https://imgur.com/a/xDdzDRr https://imgur.com/a/xDdzDRr This memory usage is roughly the same on Windows 10 Task Manager: https://imgur.com/a/xWkdoN1 https://imgur.com/a/xWkdoN1 In contrast, the so-called "heavier" classic Visual Studio 2019 v16.5 (devenv.exe) with no files open, Task Manager stats shows it using less than ~200 MB. I think some folks get the impression VSCode is "lightweight" because the GUI/UI is lightweight. VSCode is less "busy" looking... less menu options, no ribbon with icons, less multi-panels of properties, etc. VSCode's GUI looks more like a bare-bones "text editor" than an IDE.
- jhasse 7y agoIt's lightweight when compared to other IDEs like Visual Studio, IntelliJ or Xcode. How they do it while using Electron? No idea.
- tinybug 7y agolightweight maybe is not correct. maybe simple is more correct.