[qppo]

Its too early in the morning for me to get into a flamewar about this.

So all I'll say is that I get a lot of value out of VS Code as a tool, and I don't think it's slow. I think every point you bring up comes from a lack of experience and knowledge of the tool/platform, and it's not worth arguing about online.

[arghwhat]

I'm not saying that VS Code is not valuable as a tool - that would be a stupid thing to argue over.

I used VS Code for about a year, and occasionally revisit to reevaluate. Hell, I even gave Atom a (rather unwarranted) fair shot.

What I am evaluating is just performance and resource consumption, which is much worse than it needs to be due to the design choice of using Electron, which has little to nothing to do with the functionality it provides.

For me, the performance makes it uncomfortable to use. Others less fortunate will be experiencing something much worse than I am.

[toastercat]

I agree that VSCode is not "slow," at least not when you get used to it and definitely not in comparison to other Electron apps. I used Sublime Text 3 for a long time before Atom became popular. Immediately, I noticed that Atom was nowhere near as snappy as ST3, and was constantly hanging even on opening large folder structures.

VSCode was a breath of fresh air compared to Atom and the extension support was even more impressive. But very recently when I found out about the Sublime LSP package, I decided to give Sublime another look. The snappiness difference between ST3 and VSCode is night and day. Even though by no means does VSCode feels "slow" for my day-to-day work, the small speed improvements of using ST3 compounds to make for a greater experience overall to me.