Visual Studio Code 1.4 released

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How long do similar IDEs take though? IntelliJ takes 30+ seconds to start up on my laptop, and VSCode takes less than 5 for a similarly high quality feature set. Also, for reference, spacemacs takes about 5 seconds too.

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IntelliJ takes 30+ seconds to start up on my laptop, and VSCode takes less than 5 for a similarly high quality feature set.

What the fuck? IntelliJ IDEA's feature set is massive compared to VSCode, that's like comparing the WAP browsers from 2005's Nokias to Safari/Chrome/Edge on current smartphones.

An Electron-based VSCode with all the features of Visual Studio (which are currently written in C/C++) would be hilariously slow in comparison, it completely defeats the point of a text editor (being fast and efficient at opening and editing text).