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> Native. Fast. Lightweight. Comparison is missing editors that would compete with this. VS Code is huge and slow, but somehow people use it and love the exten
by rplnt 5y ago
> Native. Fast. Lightweight.
Comparison is missing editors that would compete with this. VS Code is huge and slow, but somehow people use it and love the extensibility and broad support. Goland is just a beast that does so much more it's not even in the same league.
What would make sense in the comparison chart is something like ST3.
- Dave3of5 5y agoFast and slow are relative. VSCode opens within about 2 seconds on my machine which for me is fast. For some users they want it to open even faster than that so something like vim makes sense. Visual studio 2019 on the other hand takes about a minute to a large project and with resharper even longer.
- madeofpalk 5y agoI am surprised at just how slow Visual Studio proper is compared to VS Code, at things like typing and updating linting/compiler warnings.
- speedgoose 5y agoVSCode opens in 1s on my machine (macbook pro m1). Good enough for me.
- laurent123456 5y agoAnd once it's started (in my case it's always running), switching files is instantaneous.
- otikik 5y agoFast does not mean only "fast to open", though. When I think about a fast editor I think about opening a 2GB log file and looking for some text, or editing a multi-megabyte Markdown file with syntax highlighting on without any slowdown (something my NeoVim currently struggles with).
- speedgoose 5y agoI just opened a 4GB JSON file in VScode, it took a few seconds to load, but it is fast enough for me. Syntax highlighting disabled itself, but searching text works.
- rplnt 5y agoWhat you say just underlines my point from above. People who are happy with performance of VS Code are not looking at performance graphs in a new editor. And those who seek performance are probably not using VS Code anyway. PS: > macbook pro m1 People were able to run IDEs and code editors 20 years ago. My 5 year old MB Pro is struggling with VS code. Not anything smart either, just UI, syntax highlighting, ... So while "good enough for me" is absolutely valid position, VS Code is objectively slow.
- skinnymuch 5y agoMy 7 years old MB Pro seems to handle VSCode fine