[edgyquant]

I’ve no idea what you’re on about, and I come from CLI editors (vim.) VSCode is not slow at all for me, no latency I can readily see. My only complaint is that LiveShare is incredibly buggy and my team does a ton of pair programming.

[dlisboa]

I think that's part of the issue that polarizes people: it's not consistently slow and it's not consistently fast. So you get people who can't understand how it's usable, and others who can't understand how anyone has a problem with it.

Some other editors are consistently fast, for everyone, always (like [n]vim). Not because they're special but editing text just isn't that big a deal and these editors don't try to do too much graphically, so their performance is great.

Another problem is the combination of extensions probably has a significant impact on performance and resource usage. So person A uses it to edit JavaScript and has no problem, but person B uses it to edit Ruby and has one. It might not even be VS Code's fault, maybe an extension, but it is seen as if it's the editor since it's a whole package and the input latency is what's suffering.

[nickelpro]

Neovim isn't immune to slow plugins, it's just a smaller ecosystem and therefore has less exposure.

My two cents, I've never seen a case of "VSC is slow" that isn't user error in this vein or on codebases that don't struggle similarly with similar tools. Ex, if clangd is struggling with your million file codebase under VSC it doesn't somehow become more responsive under Neovim.

And ya, anecdotally, I've never seen input latency specifically move an inch. The VSC team lives and dies on input latency and it shows in the current product.

[Atotalnoob]

Live share is an amazing thing that Microsoft demos.

Doesn't really work (in my experience) in the real world...