• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    The literal most popular IDE amongst software developers is VS Code that’s built on Electron.

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      11 months ago

      I know. I also use VSCode. However I just hate how much ram it uses. I had a Laptop with 4Gb of ram and I could not open VsCode on that thing when I had literally anything else open because the system would freeze.

      Just because VsCode uses Electron doesn’t mean that Electron is not bad

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        11 months ago

        Tbf, it’s typically language servers and extensions causing cpu and memory footprints. If you were to open a dumb txt file, I doubt you’d encounter issues. The app itself is pretty light. I say this as a neovim user who has managed to make its memory footprint balloon _

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          11 months ago

          Can confirm. No matter how lightweight your IDE claims to be, if rust-analyzer uses 1GB RAM per project you have open and takes 30 seconds to start up, then that’s that.

          Source: learned Neovim having been promised it would be a lightweight alternative to a more mainstream IDE that would also speed up programming with keyboard shortcuts. By the time I added enough plugins to make it usable, only one of those two things was even debatably true.

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          11 months ago

          My NeoVim (which can leverage VSCodes plugins) uses about 60MB for an entire project.

          And doesn’t have the stink of Microsoft and its associated user tracking.

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          11 months ago

          Yes. Thats a fuckton for a code editor. I also have an operating system that needs ram too. And if I open a browser it’s over

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      11 months ago

      I think parsing code and all the dependencies will require way more than 120MB of RAM so for VS Code the overhead doesn’t matter that much. For smaller apps 120MB of ram is insane.

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        11 months ago

        lite-xl with LSP gives you most of the features of vscode (they’re both lsp) at a tiny percentage of the system resources

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          11 months ago

          In my experience LSP actually consumes quite a bit of resources. I’m using nvim with LSP and it’s definitely not tiny percentage of what other IDEs are using. The editor is light, LSP is not.