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If you can make something 10k x faster you didn’t so much fix it as just switch it to working correctly as it should have in the first place. VSCode is a good tool, but it’s unbearably slow, and it breaks my heart that so much development has converged on something written in electron with such a low regard for performance by any measure.
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That's surprising to hear, because I use vscode every day and its performance is miles away of any JS apps I've ever used. It truly feels like a native app when it comes to performance, at the same time keeping some "fluidity" of web app (like scale the entire UI with single key press or reloading the entire app like a web page). I'd say I never had issues with vscode performance and actually its performance is a maj…
What CPU do you have? Because even though VSCode is "just" a text editor, I've found it's relatively demanding. A Core 2 Duo, which is admittedly a little old, but which does absolutely fine with vim, is slow to the point of being unusable with VSCode.
I’ve since upgraded to a 2014 i7 and now VS Code feels fast.
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That's interesting, I don't find VSCode slow at all, even when working on large workspaces via SSH over a high latency link. Sure, there are native editors that are snappier, but not to the point that affect my productivity in any way. The one thing that VSCode does not handle well is large files (e.g. DB dumps, large JSONs, logfiles), but for coding, it really is not an issue.
What plugin are you using to open workspaces via SSH?
I use it for almost all of my development. I launch an ec2 instance with my projects and all of my code and data stays in my dev vpc. I can connect from my laptop or workstation and I can spin up extra dev environments if I am working on multiple projects. Plus, since the projects usually involve a pretty big data set, i don't have to download that locally and it can be replicated quickly within the vpc for each dev environment.
The SSH extension even knows how to forward ports back and you can add/remove port forwards from the vscode ui.
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The craziest thing to me is the people who are conditioned into believing that it's not slow. I don't know if it's some sort of perverse Stockholm syndrome, or if young developers today are just not familiar with how incredibly fast desktop applications used to be decades ago. I regularly have to completely reboot it because it becomes so unbearably slow, input latency alone often reaches hundreds of milliseconds. An…
I’ve no idea what you’re on about, and I come from CLI editors (vim.) VSCode is not slow at all for me, no latency I can readily see. My only complaint is that LiveShare is incredibly buggy and my team does a ton of pair programming.
Doesn't really work (in my experience) in the real world...
If you can make something 10k x faster you didn’t so much fix it as just switch it to working correctly as it should have in the first place. VSCode is a good tool, but it’s unbearably slow, and it breaks my heart that so much development has converged on something written in electron with such a low regard for performance by any measure.
What is faster than vscode? I've tried emacs and intellij and both have slow start up, break up and cause issues more often
that being said i use vscode due to the remote ssh stuff which is pretty handy. took me a while to get used to the latency everywhere.
If you can make something 10k x faster you didn’t so much fix it as just switch it to working correctly as it should have in the first place. VSCode is a good tool, but it’s unbearably slow, and it breaks my heart that so much development has converged on something written in electron with such a low regard for performance by any measure.
The speed performance became possible by being able to implement this within VSCode's core rather than over the extensions API. Without proving the value proposition as an extension first, it'd be difficult to get a change like this merged into core at the start.
Also, VSCode is by far the fastest IDE I've ever used. I occasionally need to interact with IntelliJ, Android Studio, and XCode. The difference in responsiveness is night and day. Before VSCode, I would almost exclusively just use Vim. It's silly to be bashing it as a "slow" Electron app when it's measurably way faster than XCode, a native IDE developed by a company with an integration advantage of being in control the underlying OS and hardware.
The speedup is from taking extension code built on a limited API and implementing it inside VSCode, using more information while doing so.
If you can make something 10k x faster you didn’t so much fix it as just switch it to working correctly as it should have in the first place. VSCode is a good tool, but it’s unbearably slow, and it breaks my heart that so much development has converged on something written in electron with such a low regard for performance by any measure.
It's not the fastest IDE out there, but it's certainly not unbearably slow.
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For the most part I agree with you but "miles away of any JS apps" is a low bar to cross.
I use vs code and jet brains intellij. Vscode is by miles more stable and light weight for running a java spring app. Of course intellij runs a lot of stuff but the experience is not better for it. Intellij feels like a sloth next to vscode
Also, if you’re on a Mac — there’s an Apple Silicon build that is noticeably better.
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That's surprising to hear, because I use vscode every day and its performance is miles away of any JS apps I've ever used. It truly feels like a native app when it comes to performance, at the same time keeping some "fluidity" of web app (like scale the entire UI with single key press or reloading the entire app like a web page). I'd say I never had issues with vscode performance and actually its performance is a maj…
What CPU do you have? Because even though VSCode is "just" a text editor, I've found it's relatively demanding. A Core 2 Duo, which is admittedly a little old, but which does absolutely fine with vim, is slow to the point of being unusable with VSCode.