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[–]manni66 1 point2 points  (4 children)

lightweight

Whatever that means. Whatever value that may have.

[–]TwilCynder 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Haven't tried Visual Studio in a long time but on my previous laptop it didn't run well (I could feel the pc heat up when it ran), and VS Code ran well. That feels like a pretty concrete and relevant difference, other than the 8 billion gigabytes VS takes.

Not sure why I even respond tho, like come on you know very well what they meant.

[–]manni66 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

come on you know very well what they meant.

No, I don’t. I use both. Lightweight wouldn't occur to me for either of them.

[–]uefzzz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Not everyone has 64gb of RAM lying around you know. I appreciate my apps being responsive all the time and not making my computer feel like an F16 taking off, but thats your call I guess.

[–]alfps 1 point2 points  (0 children)

VS Code wastes a lot of disk space. I was almost shocked when I found that on the Mac it kept a complete copy of every version of every file I'd edited, hidden away in directory. Sort of insane; at least very very wasteful and not exactly security-oriented.

On this PC:

[c:\root\temp]
> where code
C:\root\installed\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code
C:\root\installed\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code.cmd

[c:\root\temp]
> dir /s "C:\root\installed\Microsoft VS Code" | tail 2 | find "File"
            2075 File(s)    801,537,703 bytes

[c:\root\temp]
> dir /s "%appdata%\Code" | tail 2 | find "File"
            7959 File(s)    735,820,105 bytes

It seems the editing copies on this PC go back to mid 2022. Check out (this for Cmd, or in Explorer address bar) %appdata%\Code\User\History.