That definitely doesn't explain the difference for me, since in my current position I hardly write any code but I use VSCode constantly for editing plain text a

That definitely doesn't explain the difference for me, since in my current position I hardly write any code but I use VSCode constantly for editing plain text and I still see it go resource-nuts once a week. I assume that it has something to do with the fact that opening vscode to edit a single file results in a dozen processes with varying "-type=" arguments. I currently see --type=gpu-process, --type=renderer (x2), --type=zygote (x2), --type=ptyHost, --type=searchService, --type=watcherService, --type=extensionHost, --type=utility, and two processes without a --type argument. Eventually one or more of these processes will go nuts and start chewing CPU endlessly, it'll all go unresponsive, and I'll notice that my memory usage is pegged, then I'll restart the whole lot and everything will be better.