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As much as I wanted to like and use VS Code, Electron base still ruined it for me. If it was some other app where I do not expect instant snappiness and lower memory usage, for example, Slack (also Electron app), I would swallow it, but for an editor, I can`t.
I left it because the Vim mode is completely unusable. None of the commands work like you expect them to, undo was broken and I'd periodically lose my undo history. Everything was just a little bit wrong. Which is a shame because it's otherwise a really fantastic editor.
I tried VS Code for a few weeks and really liked it. In particular, it's super super fast (compared to vim, spacemacs, emacs and atom, all of which I've used in recent history). It's by far the fastest and smoothest text editor I've used and I was sad to leave it. I left it because the Vim mode is completely unusable. None of the commands work like you expect them to, undo was broken and I'd periodically lose my undo…
Did you mean fast in terms of performance, or in terms of your ability to edit, or something else? And you weren't using a GUI version of vim/emacs, right?
As much as I wanted to like and use VS Code, Electron base still ruined it for me. If it was some other app where I do not expect instant snappiness and lower memory usage, for example, Slack (also Electron app), I would swallow it, but for an editor, I can`t.
How much memory does it use? My emacs instance uses ~200M with a moderate amount of files(along with other processes mostly repls). I would imagine VSCode to be in the same ballpark, and 200M is not that of a big deal imo.
I tried VS Code for a few weeks and really liked it. In particular, it's super super fast (compared to vim, spacemacs, emacs and atom, all of which I've used in recent history). It's by far the fastest and smoothest text editor I've used and I was sad to leave it. I left it because the Vim mode is completely unusable. None of the commands work like you expect them to, undo was broken and I'd periodically lose my undo…
You found it to be fast in comparison to vim and emacs? I am surprised to hear someone say this. I also think it is plenty fast for my needs, but certainly not faster than vim or emacs. Did you mean fast in terms of performance, or in terms of your ability to edit, or something else? And you weren't using a GUI version of vim/emacs, right?
I tried VS Code for a few weeks and really liked it. In particular, it's super super fast (compared to vim, spacemacs, emacs and atom, all of which I've used in recent history). It's by far the fastest and smoothest text editor I've used and I was sad to leave it. I left it because the Vim mode is completely unusable. None of the commands work like you expect them to, undo was broken and I'd periodically lose my undo…
As much as I wanted to like and use VS Code, Electron base still ruined it for me. If it was some other app where I do not expect instant snappiness and lower memory usage, for example, Slack (also Electron app), I would swallow it, but for an editor, I can`t.
Why is Slack being an Electron-based app more tolerable? I find it absurd that you need a whole browser to make a chat app.
As much as I wanted to like and use VS Code, Electron base still ruined it for me. If it was some other app where I do not expect instant snappiness and lower memory usage, for example, Slack (also Electron app), I would swallow it, but for an editor, I can`t.
It works just fine for me. It's just as usable as any other editor. It slightly less snappy that vim in a terminal, but it doesn't make much of a difference most of the time. I still use vim occasionally though in some contexts (single file editing, constraint environment...).
I tried VS Code for a few weeks and really liked it. In particular, it's super super fast (compared to vim, spacemacs, emacs and atom, all of which I've used in recent history). It's by far the fastest and smoothest text editor I've used and I was sad to leave it. I left it because the Vim mode is completely unusable. None of the commands work like you expect them to, undo was broken and I'd periodically lose my undo…
You found it to be fast in comparison to vim and emacs? I am surprised to hear someone say this. I also think it is plenty fast for my needs, but certainly not faster than vim or emacs. Did you mean fast in terms of performance, or in terms of your ability to edit, or something else? And you weren't using a GUI version of vim/emacs, right?
So scrolling is slow. Terminal related? Maybe - terminals are slow. But when highlights an error in elm or ocaml code, scrolling becomes unusably slow (not that it's really that fast otherwise).
By contrast, no plugin I loaded made VS Code slow, and it was super smooth and fast to do, yes, scrolling, all the time.
My current emacs is via spacemacs, and I'm only using it for magit. Apart from asking me to update .recentf EVERY SINGLE TIME I refresh magit, it also takes a very noticeable pause to update the git status. By contrast, that was completely backgrounded in VS Code (though I didn't really use it since I prefer magit, so apples and oranges comparison here).
TL;DR: vim is not fast, especially not if you want to do something like use it in a terminal with plugins. VS Code is actually really fast.