[GordonS]

I strongly disagree, and I have to question if you've actually used VS Code.

I use VS Code every day, and relative to it's capabilities, I think memory usage is good. It also starts almost instantaneously, and is very snappy when using.

[odshoifsdhfs]

I am not bashing on Electron, but I have seen slowdowns and memory hogging on VS in large projects (Typescript). I end up restarting it every 3-4 hours to get it back a baseline speed.

[smcleod]

You’re not at all alone, working across several teams of devs and infra engineers people are always whinging about electron apps that eat up resources, kill their batteries and slow down over time, slack and VSCode are prime examples.

[abjKT26nO8]

I tried it, saw rendering glitches like the ones you see when you scroll a webpage using Firefox or Chromium on X, looked at the RAM usage, saw that its UI is its own thing that doesn't integrate with the rest of the system[1] and concluded that it's not for me.

[1]: Well, this last point isn't all that exceptional on Linux, but it adds up and I suspect that for people using macOS this is a downgrade.

[GordonS]

Not that I doubt you, but I think your experience is atypical. I've never seen rendering glitches on Windows, Linux or MacOS (I use all 3,although mostly Windows & MacOS), and I've been using it since forever. A totally scientific straw poll of colleagues finds the same.