[pjmlp]

Even if it stayed 32 bit that wouldn't have helped with memory resources, because experience has proven that if we care about host stability extensions should be running on their own processes with OS IPC.

Which is something that VSCode does, and VS has been increasingly adopting, and I bet VS 2026 will most likely double down on it.

Which in the end means lots of processes going around to support IDE related tasks.

[anonymars]

Right, isn't that all the more reason not to make the IDE itself 64-bit?

[pjmlp]

Maybe, although there are other issues keeping 32 bit processes around on a 64 bit OS.

[anonymars]

Do you have some examples?