3 ms·If it's in Java it's not exactly lightweight.by xvilka 5y agoIf it's in Java it's not exactly lightweight.vbezhenar 5y agoVSCode is Electron. You can't be more heavyweight.bionade24 5y agoYou never started any Java-based IDE, did you? You can smack tons of plugins into VSCode, enable them all and it still loads faster. Not using any of the above mentioned anymore, so I'm not teaming for one site.kaba0 5y agoEven with all those plugins it does a fraction of what IntelliJ provides, so it is apples to oranges. Java itself doesn’t have that slow of a startup.zxcq544 5y agoJava gui libraries are slow to start. Java starts fast but then GUI starts to load and it takes time.