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by JediPig 1230 days ago
Turbo C for dos was written in 2 1/2 months. Now it takes almost 2 years to write a code editor? This is not a ding towards the OP. It is an awareness that something has gone fundamentally wrong with development.

vscode and modern IDE now take 1-2 gb of ram for medium projects. What has caused so much resource usage?