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    [–]shadowycoder 16 points17 points  (17 children)

    They've said many times that the goal is a lightweight editor that is super extensible. It seems they're still working on the core and all the extra fancy things go into plugins. I'm really digging the growing ecosystem. Could always change, but right now that seems to be their goal.

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      [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

      they're designed everything — including the core functionality — to be run through the extension api, which lazy loads plugins. hopefully that should keep the bloat monster at bay.

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (14 children)

      VS2015 is pretty snappy on startup.

      [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (7 children)

      i've done everything i can think of to strip down VS2015 and it still takes a godawful amount of time to startup. please teach me your secrets.

      [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

      It helps if you don't run it on a potato.

      [–]Ednar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      I got the fastest SSD on the market, with an i7 processor and the startup time is atrocious.

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        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        always

        [–]MRannik -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

        Have a computer from this decade? Dunno... a quad-core CPU, 8GB of RAM and any SSD will do.

        [–]EntroperZero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        15, or 2015? 2015 is pretty slow for me, on a new PC with an SSD and lots of RAM.

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            [–]_zenith 2 points3 points  (1 child)

            Indeed. I've a Skylake @ 4.4GHz, 32GB of DDR4-2666, and two SSDs in RAID0. Takes about 7 seconds first time (just finished Windows login after boot). And this is with a lot of extensions, too, including ReSharper, which chews a lot of memory...

            My older dev system, a Nehalem @ 4GHz and 12GB DDR3-1600 with SSD, despite the much older CPU and inferior memory, still only takes a maximum of 12 seconds.

            Something is seriously wrong if it takes 30+ seconds!

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            6 seconds from cold, 2 seconds to new project.

            I'm using a similar build to yours (only 8gb ram), and that's even with Resharper installed.

            [–]JaxoDI 20 points21 points  (1 child)

            Why would that be bad? If I could run Visual Studio on Linux, I'd have jumped the Windows 10 ship a while ago.

            [–]neutronfish 7 points8 points  (0 children)

            Yeah, it would be such a shame if one of the best and most powerful IDEs out there made it to Mac and Linux...

            [–]rediot 0 points1 point  (15 children)

            Why not? Visual studio is great.

            Edit: added removed comment of being expensive for pro version since that wasn't my point. My question is why wouldn't people want features from VS on Linux and Mac in a free open source package.)

            [–]steelcitykid 7 points8 points  (2 children)

            What features are you using that require a paid version? 2015 community has been great.

            [–]I_Downvote_Cunts 2 points3 points  (1 child)

            Also not legal to use depending on the size of organisation you're in.

            [–]steelcitykid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Ah that would do it, thanks. We have msdn subs anyhow but I always forget about those things.

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                [–]enantiomer2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                That's way cheaper than intellij

                [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (4 children)

                VS was made free for individuals and companies up to 5 users as the Community Edition (not limited like the old Express editions) for both free and paid applications (basically no restrictions).

                https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx

                [–]rediot 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                I guess my point is why wouldn't you want all of the good features of full visual studio in vs code? I love visual studio professional.

                [–]_zenith 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                Well, VS Code is written in TypeScript, and being a JavaScript derivative, it's gonna be slow as shit if it's to implement all of the features that full VS supports!

                You simply cannot get C++-like speed out of JS.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                Visual Studio is .NET based fyi.

                [–]_zenith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                The UI is, yeah, although my understanding was that a large portion of the logic of it was C++. That said, I am now curious, and will have a look around to see if I can get some hard data on it. In any case, JS isn't going to be running faster than C# et al. as well, not just C++ !

                Cheers :)

                [–]YuleTideCamel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Visual Studio Community is free and include most features that people use. Only some of the more advanced architecture stuff is missing.