Why I use old hardware

Re:Why I use old hardware by pseudalopex on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:53PM (#18982061)

Even VS Code is slower and uses much more memory than native apps.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by carlmr on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:33PM (#18983250)

True, on my machine it uses 150MB of my RAM. It's a lot compared to native apps, but it's really at the point where it's not that bad in the grand scheme of things.

Our companies customized eclipse on the other hand hogs 8GB ram when doing nothing, needs 2 minutes to start, and is sluggish in general. It's our course written in Java, which is much closer to native than electron, but still they wasted resources everywhere they could.

You can't run a compile on a 8GB ram machine, it will start swapping to hard disk.

Sublime doesn't have all the features, notepad ++ neither, and I just don't like vim style editing.

That leaves vscode.

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