[Swizec]

VSCode is blazing fast on my 5 year old personal laptop. VSCode is frustratingly slow on my M2 work laptop full of corporate nannyware.

It’s not VSCode’s fault ;)

JS-based apps happen to interact terribly with nannyware for some reason. I see it every time I run one of our node services, everything just grinds to a halt while the antivirus freaks out about how dare I run a piece of uncompiled code.

Slack and friends have the same problem. Discord actually runs better in a browser than as a standalone app.

[whizzter]

This probably needs far more attention than it's given.

A half-wild guess here is that because viruses uses various ways to hide themselves the anti-virus software probably scans W^X codepages on changes, so anything JIT compiled (all modern JS engines) will trigger a lot of spurious scans (kinda like how compiling and writing .exe files can grind turnaround times to a halt).

[buzzerbetrayed]

> JS-based apps happen to interact terribly with nannyware for some reason

I mean, yeah.. because they're slow and resource intensive. Your comment directly contradicts itself: It IS VSCodes fault.

And BTW, it doesn't have anything to do with "nannyware". They slow down on any computer that is under the tiniest load.