I've got three Go files open and looking at all the processes related to "Visual Studio Code.app", I see a residential memory footprint of 660MB. I'm using the latest version.

That also coincides with:

https://medium.com/@caspervonb/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4...

And

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...