It's not "horseshit" - I gave you a caveat precisely so that you can understand the limitations of my comparison, and so that you don't need to be so antagonistic.

lightweight

I launched VSCode fresh this morning. Just now, 4 hours later, I closed it and watched my system memory usage: 1.3GB. I am doing remote development, so there's a whole server process as well which is chomping a few GB. My old laptop repeatedly ground to a halt until the OOM killer woke up/I rebooted as its measly 32GB of RAM couldn't cope with two VSCode sessions (plus other normal apps) after a while.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Two VSCode sessions are NOT the problem if your system with 32GB of ram is stalling lmao

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In my experience VSCode on Windows runs like dogshit. I blame Windows for that. VSCode on Linux runs like a dream. I can have four different sessions open and it still runs great (I haven’t tested more than that because I’ve never had a reason to).

[–] hornywarthogfart@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I can confirm this has been my experience as well.

Anectdotally, the only people I know who say vscode is lightweight and snappy are devs that have have primarily used it, visual studio, jet brains, or some other common and bloated application.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Drawing strong conclusions like 'VSCode is an abomination that runs like dogshit and is worse than an Oracle product', from an admittedly flawed comparison that does not demonstrate that, is inviting some antagonism.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 15 points 2 weeks ago

Electron is the abomination, not VSCode, and JetBrains IDEs are developed by... JetBrains, not Oracle.