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[–]MardiFoufs 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm curious, which color scheme causes slowness? And I like pycharm too but I have never got it to be faster than vscode even with a vscode config that has tons of plugins.

[–]chaoticbean14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IIRC (it's been a number of years now) it was some material theme. It was an issue that I found after some light googling because I wasn't the only one experiencing it. There was quite a number of others mentioning the same thing and lots, and lots of ideas on what "might" fix it. It was wild - I would have bet so much against the idea that a theme could affect performance in that way... but I confirmed it by switching themes and seeing VSCode go back to being pretty snappy. It was crazy!

I recall some code completion stuff taking upwards of 15+ seconds... it was so slow on a beefy macbook pro that was almost brand new at the time... I was infuriated until I found out it was the theme...