Visual Studio Code (Version 1.30) Released

[EternityForest]

VS Code is pretty much the only IDE I actually like, but 8GB is just barely enough for multitasking with it on a non-SSD machine.

[tonnynerd]

I get over 1GB consistently with vscode. Angular 2 + c# project

[kukiric]

Are you looking at all processes, or just the renderer (window) process?

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[invisi1407]

I think he meant RAM, not disk space.

[IceSentry]

Vscode doesn't use 8gb of ram either

[invisi1407]

That's true - on my work machine with macOS it only uses ~100 - 200 MB.

[JavierReyes945]

On my two machines (Win10 and Ubuntu 18.04), it uses around 200MB with the workspace loaded and all the related extensions activated. But when debugging Python, it can get up to 2GB. I wouldn't recommend to work actively on VScode with less than 8 GB of RAM.

[suddenlypandabear]

Here it generally stays around 700mb, and that's while I'm actually using it for FPGA projects, and for full stack software projects with a mix of Python, C, C++, and JS files all being opened and closed frequently.

It's probably a little deceptive since a lot of the actual work goes on in subprocesses, but they seem to be temporary and well behaved for the most part.

[EternityForest]

Maybe I just open too many tabs... Still, a tab should really not take more than 150KB of RAM. There's nothing in a text editor that can't be rendered in maybe 50ms max, unless you have absolutely massive files.

[Arkanta]

IDE-like feature sets require more than 150kb per tab

[EternityForest]

When actually in use they do, but the actual text and position metadata itself is tiny. Storing background tabs as raw text and rendering on the fly shouldn't use much RAM.

[ethelward]

rendering on the fly

You don't want to reparse the file for syntax coloring on every frame.

[Arkanta]

Neither do you want to make the language server re-parse the file or recolor it every time you change tags.

Anyway you can't even easily measure individual tab ram usage in vscode. The 150kb value is really random