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Re:Electron considered harmful by roryisok on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:54AM (#13035509)
I currently have VS Code running with 7 files open, and it's using 83Mb. Like a browser, I imagine the RAM goes up with each tab, so it all depends on how many files you have open.
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Re:Electron considered harmful by mixedCase on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:49PM (#13039354)
Well I just closed all files, disabled all extensions, restarted it and it's consuming 508MB.
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