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>The latency on every keypress is grating. May I ask what computer are you using? I would say VS Code runs 'buttery smooth' on my macs. Is this a case of me ha

by yreg 6y ago

>The latency on every keypress is grating. May I ask what computer are you using? I would say VS Code runs 'buttery smooth' on my macs. Is this a case of me having no idea of what I'm missing?

josephg 6y ago
It might also matter what languages the poster is using. Programming typescript in vscode is a peerless experience. But writing C and Rust feel much worse - I get 200+ ms latency navigating around and typing sometimes, and cmd+click navigation gets janky and breaks very regularly in both of those languages. I assume the culprit is half baked language extensions. I love vscode for typescript but I’d happily switch which editor I use for rust and C if I find something better.
- tuankiet65 6y ago
  Man, and I'm here thinking it's just my VSCode that's super slow and sluggish while editing C++ code. I switch to Clion and it's surprisingly more responsive than VSCode, given Clion is a whole IDE in itself.
  - josephg 6y ago
    Yeah I highly recommend giving VSCode another try if you ever end up writing typescript. Typescript in vscode is so great that its weird to me that Nova is targetting web development. VSCode sets a really high bar for this community. In comparison, programming Swift in XCode lags so much sometimes that it starts missing keystrokes, and I end up with variable names that are missing half their letters. (This happens particularly when filling in a function's arguments). Its terrible, and it leaves me second guessing the idea that native editors are superior by default. This seems to me like a much more useful target for a new IDE.
- spiralganglion 6y ago
  I work with CoffeeScript (yes, I'm the one person, hah), SCSS, and HTML. No frameworks. No editor extensions. As minimal a setup as possible, aside from my two fave transpilers. The perf I'm taking about is just purely motion to photon, with a plain text file.
spiralganglion 6y ago
16" MBP, i9, top GPU. As maxed-out as you can max-out a MBP. I'm a musician, animator, and gamer — and I read Dan Luu's blog posts, haha — so I'm quite sensitive to input lag.

by yreg 6y ago

>The latency on every keypress is grating. May I ask what computer are you using? I would say VS Code runs 'buttery smooth' on my macs. Is this a case of me having no idea of what I'm missing?

josephg 6y ago

It might also matter what languages the poster is using. Programming typescript in vscode is a peerless experience. But writing C and Rust feel much worse - I get 200+ ms latency navigating around and typing sometimes, and cmd+click navigation gets janky and breaks very regularly in both of those languages. I assume the culprit is half baked language extensions. I love vscode for typescript but I’d happily switch which editor I use for rust and C if I find something better.

tuankiet65 6y ago
Man, and I'm here thinking it's just my VSCode that's super slow and sluggish while editing C++ code. I switch to Clion and it's surprisingly more responsive than VSCode, given Clion is a whole IDE in itself.
- josephg 6y ago
  Yeah I highly recommend giving VSCode another try if you ever end up writing typescript. Typescript in vscode is so great that its weird to me that Nova is targetting web development. VSCode sets a really high bar for this community. In comparison, programming Swift in XCode lags so much sometimes that it starts missing keystrokes, and I end up with variable names that are missing half their letters. (This happens particularly when filling in a function's arguments). Its terrible, and it leaves me second guessing the idea that native editors are superior by default. This seems to me like a much more useful target for a new IDE.
spiralganglion 6y ago
I work with CoffeeScript (yes, I'm the one person, hah), SCSS, and HTML. No frameworks. No editor extensions. As minimal a setup as possible, aside from my two fave transpilers. The perf I'm taking about is just purely motion to photon, with a plain text file.

spiralganglion 6y ago

16" MBP, i9, top GPU. As maxed-out as you can max-out a MBP. I'm a musician, animator, and gamer — and I read Dan Luu's blog posts, haha — so I'm quite sensitive to input lag.