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VSCode is slow? I mean, for 7 years? Somewhere around early 2017 things started to get out of hand and VSCode was super hyped. To the point 99% on HN was sayin
by ksec 3y ago
VSCode is slow?
I mean, for 7 years? Somewhere around early 2017 things started to get out of hand and VSCode was super hyped. To the point 99% on HN was saying it was very fast. Initially ( Pre 2017 ) it was compared to Atom which means the bar was low. And then somehow people start claiming it was as fast as Sublime or they see no difference.
As someone mentioned down below, both Lapce and Zed is designed with speed in mind. Or just use VIM.
VSCode may be flexible, but it is only fast by the measure of an electron App.
- __jonas 3y agoIt's fast enough for me to not notice any slowness. I switched to it from JetBrains IDEA because it was literally causing seconds of delays when scrolling / entering code during heavy indexing in large projects. I never noticed anything of the sort in vscode, even if extensions are doing a lot of background work I don't notice any significant impact in the UI, I can always scroll and type without interruption. I tried out zed, I don't really find it noticeably faster, although I'm sure it is! I guess there are people who are more sensitive to this sort of thing but for me it's really completely fine.
- ehnto 3y agoProbably a combination of new developers and wide spread use of SSDs have made it's public image of speed. But really it is pretty quick, on modern hardware it is more or less instant at most tasks. I use Jetbrains IDEs and am migrating to neovim, even Jetbrains is basically instant searching across large codebases once on good hardware.
- jinushaun 3y agoIf I were to guess, like everything else, it’s fast until you install extensions.