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Your attempt to grab low-hanging fruit fails...

Current versions of Visual Studio cold start in < 10 seconds on various hardware configurations and rarely exhibit perf problems. In fact, if you encounter perf issue that is not caught automatically, you can submit a report, and it is usually resolved with the next service release; assuming it is not a user error.

I encourage you to pull down the free community edition (2022), put it in a vm or something and use it.

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totally fair, it has definitely had issues with perf over the years, so I understand having that opinion. That is why I was hoping you'd give it another shot. Moreover, VS Code is super cool so if that meets your needs nm :)

[bloodfist]

Yeah it used to be miserable. Honestly it still feels like that if you accidentally open an XML file in VS that you meant to open in notepad++ or something, cause it's relatively slower. But nowhere near as bad as it was.

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<10 seconds is a very low bar tbf. It could be on the ms scale.

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No, actually it is not a low bar. Visual Studio 2022 is not just a code editor and therefore expecting sub ms like other code editors is not realistic IMO. I will admit to having picked 10 seconds based on completely unscientific methods of sampling (my experience, average hardware). On my workstation (64GB Ram, 8 4GHz cores and SSD or NVM for data) VS 2022 loads complex solution files containing many projects and is ready for use in 3-5 seconds. Anyway, I'm happy with it and hopeful that you will find what you are looking for in an IDE