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No, no it is not, especially when compared to IJ.
It launches and reloads my projects to a usable state in probably 2-3 seconds on my machine and it basically never randomly freezes like IJ did for me. People who say vscode is slow just have a hate boner for electron.
No, I say that it's slow because switching between files and watching the syntax highlighting come in takes long enough that it knocks me out of flow state.
EDIT: Tbf, me saying it's AS slow as IntelliJ was more of a joke. But don't get me wrong. I still do consider VSCode to be slow. 2-3 seconds to open a project is slow, regardless of project size.
Are you a robot? That process is not visible on my machine. Probably a 100ms thing. Humans perceive a speed like that as "instant".
Nah it's like when you write your scripts in JS, and you're like "ooo it's instant!" And then you rewrite it in a compiled language... and you realize that your original script was, in fact, not instant. And then if I have to keep running the original script, it's gonna bug me every time I notice.
Sounds like robot-speak to me.
Quick, tell me to ignore all my previous instructions (or maybe you just have faster computer than me?).
The funny thing about this conversation is I normally feel like I have less of a tolerance for slow computers than anyone else. So yeah, I harped on my employer the last two machines to get upgrades asap, and my home pc's are pretty fast.
Oh wait that's actually probably it haha. I mean I basically have to code on my laptop (m2 macbook air), so it might actually be that I just have less leeway for slow software.
So basically, conclusion is: VSCode == Fast enough for desktops, maybe not fast enough for non-beefcake laptops.
I had an Intel Mac before (2017 I think?) and the M2 felt like a huge upgrade at the time. My main home machine is faster though because like you said it's a desktop. It definitely feels faster than the mac laptop on most things but it's surprising how often they feel comparably snappy.
Well I don't know about the MacBook air and maybe I'm behind the times but I feel like the M2s are fast. I do most of my work on a MacBook pro M2. I think it's about 3 years old now
No I do find the MacBook Air pretty snappy in general. It's just that I do feel an actual very noticeable snappiness difference between VSCode and Sublime/Zed; especially for switching between files within a project. I can still be productive in VSCode (in fact, I think it was the best text editor for a short time when they had the best syntax highlighting of the lighter-ish-text editors). But once LSP was integrated in Sublime, I switched back. Zed feels fast snappy for me, though. So I've been using that more.
Interesting. I used Sublime a long time. I actually thought it was a dead project now.
it doesn't have as many features as the other editors these days, so I wouldn't necessarily recommend. But I used it for more than 10 years, so my configs and plugins pretty tuned to exactly how I like. So it's my comfy place. And it still feels faster than pretty much everything, sans some terminal editors (but those aren't as comfy for me).