[GordonS]

> I always like to use VSCode as an example...

Agreed, it's a great example of why Electron exists, but also a great example of an Electron app done well - I've used other Electron apps that have far fewer features, yet feel sluggish and/or are incredible memory hogs.

> But it's not.snappy.enough.

I also use VSCode on a daily basis (on Windows), and TBH I don't find it any less snappy than native IDEs such as Visual Studio or Rider, or indeed native text editors such as Notepad2.

> the whole user experience is actually quite bad. It's sluggish, inconsistent, it's full of random glitches

Similarly, I just don't have this experience - I find it both consistent and performant.

Do you use it on Windows, or another platform?

[w0utert]

One of the standard replies I get when I complain about VSCode being sluggish is that it's not worse or even better than Visual Studio on Windows. That might be true, I don't use Visual Studio so I wouldn't know, but it's an argument that's completely unrelated to Electron. For me that's just whataboutism.

I would rather compare VS code to a regular editor with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and a few bindings to quickly kick off tasks, because that's essentially what it is. Could be Emacs, Vim, Sublime, etc. That's how I use VS Code, so that's what I compare it to. That said, for example XCode or CLion also feel faster, and I consider those way more feature-heavy than VS code.

>> Do you use it on Windows, or another platform?

I'm using VSCode on Linux, on a moderately sized C++ code base with the Microsoft IntelliSense LSP extension. I realize that some of the annoyances I experience are because of the C++ LSP stuff, which is still in preview, but it definitely isn't contained to just that. I sometimes also use VS code on macOS for JavaScript and Python projects, and even though it's a little better there, it's still nowhere near a good native editor. The weird glitches I experience are present on both platforms, and I've had a fair share of them. Keyboard input freezing for some seconds, buffers not updating when files changes, shortcuts not firing, drawing/refresh errors, just to name a few.

[GordonS]

> I would rather compare VS code to a regular editor with syntax highlighting...

So, Visual Studio is somewhat sluggish, but Rider is not. I also mentioned Notepad2, which is a native text editor - I find VSCode just as snappy as that.

> I'm using VSCode on Linux, on a moderately sized C++ code base with the Microsoft IntelliSense LSP extension

I haven't used it on Linux, or at all with C++. I've used it on Windows and MacOS, for Typescript, JavaScript and Cordova projects, as well as for note taking (because I find it as fast as a text editor, yet much more fully featured).

Honestly, I've been using VSCode for a long time now, and I've never encountered any of the glitches you mentioned. Just did a totally scientific straw poll of co-workers, who say the same. You sound unsure, but I wonder if it is due to an extension you have installed?

[renox]

Vim or Vim + YouCompleteMe? Because comparing VSCode which analyze your codebase with Vim alone isn't a fair comparison. My take: I prefer very much VSCode to Eclipse or CLion (Linux on large C++ codebase). As for Vim, I've never managed to configure it in a way that I can use ctags and multiple tabs as simply as I can do it in an IDE.