• I_like_cats@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    I know. I also use VSCode. However I just hate how much ram it uses. I had a Laptop with 4Gb of ram and I could not open VsCode on that thing when I had literally anything else open because the system would freeze.

    Just because VsCode uses Electron doesn’t mean that Electron is not bad

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      11 months ago

      Tbf, it’s typically language servers and extensions causing cpu and memory footprints. If you were to open a dumb txt file, I doubt you’d encounter issues. The app itself is pretty light. I say this as a neovim user who has managed to make its memory footprint balloon _

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        11 months ago

        My NeoVim (which can leverage VSCodes plugins) uses about 60MB for an entire project.

        And doesn’t have the stink of Microsoft and its associated user tracking.

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        11 months ago

        Yes. Thats a fuckton for a code editor. I also have an operating system that needs ram too. And if I open a browser it’s over