Sure, plugins can be very powerful and can therefore eat up any amount of resources. If you've got a language server that's doing the work of a full-on IDE behind the scenes, resource usage will go up accordingly.
But the GP wasn't talking about plugins. They were invoking the tired trope that Electron App Go Brrr, which isn't especially true in the general case, and is emphatically not true in VSCode's case.
But the GP wasn't talking about plugins. They were invoking the tired trope that Electron App Go Brrr, which isn't especially true in the general case, and is emphatically not true in VSCode's case.