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by sealthedeal 2246 days ago
From experience... with today's computer having 16GB+ ram, VSCode is fine. But if you start doing dev work on a 2011 Macbook Air with 4GB ram or even 8GB ram, you quickly notice how much memory electron apps consume. When switching between VSCode to something like Sublime, the consumption is 10X improvement. That is my only beef with Electron apps. It is a way to get something cross-platform extremely fast but with ZERO care for how expensive it is.

FWIW, I use VSCode...