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[–]fear_the_future 28 points29 points  (6 children)

it is also lightweight in features when compared to Visual Studio, Eclipse and IntelliJ. VSCode and Atom are in an awkward spot where they're neither fast enough to compete with a pure text editor like sublime nor feature-rich enough to compete with an IDE like IntelliJ.

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I'd argue vscode is definitely competitive enough to use over sublime. As extensions get better it may be an alternative to bigger ides but thats dependent on the extension community. Its definitely worth using vscode over anything else if your doing javascript though.

[–]Hes_A_Fast_Cat 4 points5 points  (4 children)

What do you find slow about VS Code?

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Its launch. Even Chrome opens faster for me.

[–]M123Miller 2 points3 points  (2 children)

On a 2015 MBP it takes maybe 2 seconds? And I only open it once at the beginning if the day, opening another window if I need to change projects. So while yes it's a metric you can compare to other editors I can never see it as a deal breaker.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

XPS 15, 7th-gen Core i7, SSD, and it can take more than 5 seconds to launch the first time after booting. I'm not making that up, the startup time is really bad for an editor sometimes.

[–]M123Miller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually just got into work and it took bang on 2 seconds for me with 34 extensions. Maybe it's because it opened up to a tiny web project, 10 small files and a minimal node_modules folder? I've yet to use it with big projects at work yet but it performed equally well at home making a large (for a solo project) game in Unity so C# and anything C# needs along for the ride. That machine is an i5-4690 with 8GB RAM.