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by sneakymichael 2202 days ago
VSCode is the most sluggish app I use on my 2019 Mac, by far. I genuinely don't understand how people can say that it feels responsive and like-native, unless they have much more performant equipment than I.

I use it because it's packed with useful functionality, but …I resent using it– I think I'd adore it if it were native.

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I agree. I tried it recently for a couple of weeks and went back to Sublime.
Wtf. It really makes me wonder if we are in fact using the same thing at all?

Started using couple or three months back for a relatively large C project (with large amounts of lib includes) and so far the experience has been really good. Then switched to remote ssh devel, still really good.

What's these slugish/perf issues on vsvode all about? What am I missing?

For me it's because it could never really break the illusion I'm using a browser and that is annoying. I'm reminded of that on every little (or not so little) stutter.

I could totally work with VSCode but I just prefer the overall experience of Sublime.

My biggest gripe with Sublime has been the lack of Extensions.