What a world we live in where 200mb RAM usage for a text editor is considered "lightweight".
Tauri can't help with RAM. It's still running in a browser.
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Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you glad about exactly? This seems to be another big bang rewrite with LLMs. Fun but extremely unlikely to go anywhere.
Not op but there is a lot of details about VS code including electron that could have been done better.
That can be said about any project.
And VSCode as been improving since inception, hence why it ate a large pie of the market.
Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
#13Would this also support the whole plugin infrastructure?
> In Progress / Unstable:
> - Extension host is early-stage — not all extensions will work
Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
#14> Same architecture, native performance ... Goal: 200mb RAM usage.
But Tauri doesn't have native performance, specifically when it comes to RAM!
> Memory benchmark might be incorrect: Tauri might consume more RAM than Electron > https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889
Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
#15Awesome project. How much work is left, are you looking for contributors? I just built very basic IDE on mobile for myself. I thought about forking vscode but it felt too heavy and I only wanted a subset of features. Now I am wondering if I should use this project for the desktop version.
Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
#16This is the kind of thing that looks simple until you actually implement it.
Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
#17> Zero Electron imports remaining in the codebase
and you know that AI wrote all of it with minimal human supervision.
side note: last few days I noticed that vscode stopped leaking memory all over the place. when left idle it was taking all the ram I had + 20gb of swap space
and recently I noticed that I have half of the ram free.
I use insiders build btw, so stable might still not have those improvements
Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you glad about exactly? This seems to be another big bang rewrite with LLMs. Fun but extremely unlikely to go anywhere.
Not op but there is a lot of details about VS code including electron that could have been done better.
VS Code is one of the most performant electron apps ever written. Extensions and plugins are always the culprit of poor performance.
Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
#19> Goal: 200mb RAM usage
This is why Zed is great but I just can't get used to the debugger experience so I end up back in VSCode.
Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
#20Vibe coded UI translation with a conflicting README and no screenshots? Is this what it takes to get onto HN front page?
It's completely vibe-coded with AI. That's hip. Works or not, fulfills its promises or not, that's not important.
It's vibe-coded, with AI, to Rust. That's enough. Ticks all boxes.
Just half-joking, BTW. Hype is hell of a drug.