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Electron apps (lemmy.world)
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[–] 19 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Lmao this is quite frankly, horseshit, upvoted by people who have never used an IDE.

VScode is lightweight, snappy, and fast to open. VSCodium gives you all of that without any of the Microsoft. And even runs in a web browser.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    It's not "horseshit" - I gave you a caveat precisely so that you can understand the limitations of my comparison, and so that you don't need to be so antagonistic.

    lightweight

    I launched VSCode fresh this morning. Just now, 4 hours later, I closed it and watched my system memory usage: 1.3GB. I am doing remote development, so there's a whole server process as well which is chomping a few GB. My old laptop repeatedly ground to a halt until the OOM killer woke up/I rebooted as its measly 32GB of RAM couldn't cope with two VSCode sessions (plus other normal apps) after a while.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    In my experience VSCode on Windows runs like dogshit. I blame Windows for that. VSCode on Linux runs like a dream. I can have four different sessions open and it still runs great (I haven’t tested more than that because I’ve never had a reason to).

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I can confirm this has been my experience as well.

    Anectdotally, the only people I know who say vscode is lightweight and snappy are devs that have have primarily used it, visual studio, jet brains, or some other common and bloated application.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Drawing strong conclusions like 'VSCode is an abomination that runs like dogshit and is worse than an Oracle product', from an admittedly flawed comparison that does not demonstrate that, is inviting some antagonism.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It's not really an IDE and it's not lightweight either.

    It's not snappy. Sometimes just moving up a couple lines fast causes my caret to lag, which is not pleasant.

    That might have more to do with when you have lots of plugins for LSPs, etc, but who uses vscode without any plugins?

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Claiming that VSCode is not an IDE is just pedantic.

    It is literally just a modular IDE that lets you pick and choose which piece you want rather then being like Visual Studio or XCode that is tailored for a single language / development flow.

    Hell you still have to download core parts of XCode / VS after you download and install them, like the development frameworks for your targets, does that mean that they're not actually IDEs?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I will concede on the "not really an IDE" part. You're right you can set it up to be like one.

    I say it's not mostly because it isn't marketed as one. It's marketed as just a source code (text) editor.

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