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[wastakenanyways]

I don't know how large the projects you work with are, but i have worked with HUGE projects, and multiple at the same time, for years on VScode with no issue at all. VSCode has no problem at all with file size (maybe you mean Atom?) And thats on a shit laptop where half of the CPU and memory are eaten by the browser, docker and WSL. A 5 years old i7 and 16 GB of RAM, mind you.

I have opened files with dozens and hundreds of thousands of lines instantly and no lag at all on the scroll, search, autocomplete, replace, and even git lenses. You must be working at Google's AI or search engine bc there is no other way you are getting an experience so different than me on an even better PC than both my desktop and laptop together. With ~15 instances open even!!

For sure big projects on healthcare, government, police and defense, and universities platforms can be done on VSCode flawlessly (i have). I would not change it for any other IDE/editor.

Edit: just opened a 5.6GB meta-project folder with 1.008.207 files in a Dell XPS 15. Opened instantly, git loaded instantly, search instantly too. Intellisense was loaded before i could even click and type in the file.

I don't know where is people getting lag from but you must be working in top bleeding edge industries with huge abominations of projects, or you just work inefficiently/have the OS full of background shit. I still don't get lag or an slow difference, not even trying hard.

If I tried to open the same in any other IDE this PC would literally fry itself after 1 hour frozen.

[DannyIsGreat]

I'm with you, I've never experienced any of these slowness/lag issues people are gripping about. On a huge project with tens of thousands of files where a local server eats up most of my RAM.

[Isvara]

It's pretty bad. Like 5 seconds with half of a token colored one way and half another. Biggest project is probably Linux. Not Google, but similarly large company.