Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them

Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:53AM (#18389885)

Also not being Electron apps they're probably more lightweight anyway despite the extra features.

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Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by mariusmg on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:17AM (#18390679)

>they're probably more lightweight anyway

Jetbrains IDEs and lightweight in the same sentence. Notepad++ and Sublime Text are lightweight, Jetbrains IDEs are not...

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Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by redhale on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:51AM (#18391451)

I literally laughed out loud sitting here at my desk. JetBrains IDEs are many things, but "lightweight" is not one of them. Electron does not have a monopoly on bloat.

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Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by vvillena on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:09AM (#18390616)

But they are Java apps. I use IntelliJ daily (for Scala development) and I'm happy with it, but it doesn't feel lightweight or snappy.

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Re:Why I wrote 33 VSCode extensions and how I manage them by milesokeefe on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:07AM (#18392189)

IntelliJ IDEA is easily the worst performing application I use.

I only use it because of the top class Kotlin support (figures, given JetBrains created it).

I end up regularly toggling Power Save mode on and off to reduce how much my CPU gets blown up. That mode turns off code suggestion, auto-imports, and error detection among other pretty core things.

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