It's kind of an abomination when VsCode, supposed to be a lighter IDE, runs like dogshit compared to JetBrains, a fuckin' Java based IDE. Since when was Java light on RAM?

(Caveat: I haven't directly compared their memory usage, my experience is in very difference codebases for each)

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 16 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

Lmao this is quite frankly, horseshit, upvoted by people who have never used an IDE.

VScode is lightweight, snappy, and fast to open. VSCodium gives you all of that without any of the Microsoft. And even runs in a web browser.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

It's not "horseshit" - I gave you a caveat precisely so that you can understand the limitations of my comparison, and so that you don't need to be so antagonistic.

lightweight

I launched VSCode fresh this morning. Just now, 4 hours later, I closed it and watched my system memory usage: 1.3GB. I am doing remote development, so there's a whole server process as well which is chomping a few GB. My old laptop repeatedly ground to a halt until the OOM killer woke up/I rebooted as its measly 32GB of RAM couldn't cope with two VSCode sessions (plus other normal apps) after a while.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Two VSCode sessions are NOT the problem if your system with 32GB of ram is stalling lmao

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Drawing strong conclusions like 'VSCode is an abomination that runs like dogshit and is worse than an Oracle product', from an admittedly flawed comparison that does not demonstrate that, is inviting some antagonism.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 13 points 14 hours ago

Electron is the abomination, not VSCode, and JetBrains IDEs are developed by... JetBrains, not Oracle.

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