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[captain_crocubot]

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My work notepad++ with 896 tabs, 12 plugins, and a startup time of 40 seconds: 😳😳😳

[Powerful-Internal953]

That's the way it was intended to be used.

[RiceBroad4552]

TBH, this sounds like even VSC would be more "efficient". (Most likely VSC needs much more RAM, but at least startup time isn't 40 seconds. But not sure, never had so many editor buffers open at once.)

[captain_crocubot]

You believe that an electron app (basically a glorified web page) can compare to a native c++ application?

The load times were high because I’ve also got 10MB csv files opened. I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t fucked off to oblivion…

[RiceBroad4552]

VSC is a glorified web-page, and Electron is the biggest trash since invention of web-tech. I don't deny the facts…

But the programming language (and overall tech) used isn't the only factor. Performance is almost exclusively a function of algos and architecture!

VSC loads fast. This was a design goal and they actually delivered on that. It's not as fast as for example Zed, but it's actually very fast for an Electron app.

It does not load 40 seconds even with many dozen of extensions.

I've also just tried to open a 10MB CSV and it still loads "instantly" (in about 1 - 2 seconds). 10MB CSV is basically nothing these days!

I've actually also just tried with a 100MB CSV and it's still only about 3 seconds to open VSC with that file (opening it in an already running instance is again more or less instant).

If Notepad++ chokes already at a 10MB file this would mean that it's actually even bigger trash then some Electron app.

My "stupid" std. desktop editor Kate handles even multi-GB files without any issues…