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The issue is that you tried to use vs code for Java. That plugin doesn't really work well, honestly.

The performance would have been pretty much the same if you used it like sublime text, so no plugins beyond synthax highlighting

And before someone claims that's not fair because sublime text has plugins too: no, it (to my knowledge) doesn't have any that enable the same classpath scanning vs code (and intellij or eclipse) does for java