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> Visual Studio Code is now optimized for Apple Silicon… and it works and it's snappy. I hated that app on my last laptop, it was very slow and bloated I was t

> Visual Studio Code is now optimized for Apple Silicon… and it works and it's snappy. I hated that app on my last laptop, it was very slow and bloated I was thinking the same thing as I read this bit. I’m still on an Intel Mac and recently switched from VSC to Panic’s Nova editor, highly polished and 100% native. If bloated code runs fast on an M1, imagine how native code performs? I’m trying very hard to excise as much Electron garbage from my life as possible.

zimpenfish 6y ago
> If bloated code runs fast on an M1, imagine how native code performs? As an example, Minecraft on the 16GB M1 Pro running under Rosetta 2 runs much better (near-constant 60fps with everything on default, no fans, imperceptible heat) than on the 32GB i9 Pro (peaks about 40fps with everything turned down, full fans, will burn you unless you disable Turbo Boost). I'm looking forward to a native JVM and seeing if it gets even better.
- rsynnott 6y ago
  Knock yourself out: https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?package=jdk https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?package=jdk (I assume you can sub in your own JDK with Minecraft? Never used it)
  - selectodude 6y ago
    I'm pretty sure it just calls Java. Whichever interpreter pops up it'll use.
  - zimpenfish 6y ago
    Found https://gist.github.com/tanmayb123/d55b16c493326945385e815453de411a https://gist.github.com/tanmayb123/d55b16c493326945385e81545... which uses Zulu to run Minecraft - was a lot of faff to get running, no sound, decent perf, definitely more heat than normal MC running on R2 though.
  - Nextgrid 6y ago
    The modern Minecraft launcher allows you to specify the Java binary to use.
megablast 6y ago
Xcode also runs well, wheee as A few weeks ago it was 10 seconds for inserting a new line.
ksec 6y ago
It is very very very rare you see this on HN, VSC is slow and bloated. You only ever see people claiming it is fast, or fast enough, or very little difference to Sublime. The bar of quality are quite low for lot of people.
- HJain13 6y ago
  People who are using VSC are adding more value to this world than those who are complaining about VSC being slow
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zimpenfish 6y ago

> If bloated code runs fast on an M1, imagine how native code performs? As an example, Minecraft on the 16GB M1 Pro running under Rosetta 2 runs much better (near-constant 60fps with everything on default, no fans, imperceptible heat) than on the 32GB i9 Pro (peaks about 40fps with everything turned down, full fans, will burn you unless you disable Turbo Boost). I'm looking forward to a native JVM and seeing if it gets even better.

rsynnott 6y ago
Knock yourself out: https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?package=jdk https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?package=jdk (I assume you can sub in your own JDK with Minecraft? Never used it)
- selectodude 6y ago
  I'm pretty sure it just calls Java. Whichever interpreter pops up it'll use.
- zimpenfish 6y ago
  Found https://gist.github.com/tanmayb123/d55b16c493326945385e815453de411a https://gist.github.com/tanmayb123/d55b16c493326945385e81545... which uses Zulu to run Minecraft - was a lot of faff to get running, no sound, decent perf, definitely more heat than normal MC running on R2 though.
- Nextgrid 6y ago
  The modern Minecraft launcher allows you to specify the Java binary to use.

megablast 6y ago

Xcode also runs well, wheee as A few weeks ago it was 10 seconds for inserting a new line.

ksec 6y ago

It is very very very rare you see this on HN, VSC is slow and bloated. You only ever see people claiming it is fast, or fast enough, or very little difference to Sublime. The bar of quality are quite low for lot of people.

HJain13 6y ago
People who are using VSC are adding more value to this world than those who are complaining about VSC being slow
- deleted 6y ago
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