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The description says it's lightweight, but on my machine it uses over 200 MB of RAM with no files open, and appears to be a Chromium-based thing, much like Atom
by gbl08ma 11y ago
The description says it's lightweight, but on my machine it uses over 200 MB of RAM with no files open, and appears to be a Chromium-based thing, much like Atom (as others pointed out, it's based on Electron). Meanwhile, Sublime Text is using less than 100 MB of RAM with dozens of files open, some of them quite big. Visual Studio tends to use less memory than this, too. If "the language services [Microsoft] built for Visual Studio Code [are going to] be available in other editors as well", then I will definitely pass on this one (and this, assuming I ever get interested in developing in .NET again).
On second thought, for now this looks nothing more than a marketing trick, very well pulled off.
- Scarbutt 11y agowhat? you don't have a 16core/32GB RAM machine with a 4K monitor?
- angrybits 11y agoGood point, I'll have to remember not to use it on any of my development workstations that have 512MB of memory.
- tomjen3 11y agoGood god that is even worse than emacs (eighty megabytes and constantly swapping). I don't develop on a machine with less than 8 gb RAM and you shouldn't either.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- emodendroket 11y agoNotepad uses very little memory; maybe you could use that instead.
- visarga 11y agoNah. Notepad doesn't even show line numbers. How hard would that have been to display the line and column?
- fetbaffe 11y agoIf they fixed that and LF line ednings we would have a winner.
- emodendroket 11y agoYes, and while we're add it, can it really be hard to add syntax highlighting? Now let's all keep adding one small feature until we've specified a fully-featured editor.
- DatBear 11y agoOn my machine with no files open it's at ~80-85MB RAM, VS2012 is at 500MB with nothing open. Not sure why 200MB is of any consequence unless you're in a third world country. 8GB of RAM is ~$50.
- nawariata 11y agoVirtual machines, yo.
- robwilliams 11y agoCode is only using 20MB on my Win8 box.
- gbl08ma 11y agoThis is interesting. I only tested it on Linux, just opened it again and it's definitely using over 150 MB of RAM, across five threads. This may mean it uses more memory on Linux than on Windows. 20 MB looks definitely lightweight, and it may be an interesting alternative to Sublime and Notepad++ which is what I use on Windows.
- robwilliams 11y agoAfter opening a few files it's up to 100-150MB, so not as lightweight as I originally thought. That doesn't affect its responsiveness, though, and I have plenty of free memory.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- benrhughes 11y agoLight weight compared to VS proper, which on my mid-sized solution is sitting at 1.2GB, and 250MB with no files open.