We're straight TypeScript/ React. We have a pretty large codebase though which no doubt contributes to the issue.

The thing is, VIM uses the same language server and (so far anyhow) doesn't melt down. It seems like the issue is in the Code Helper process itself.

I have heard of people running into issues with the file-search indexer taking a long time on extraordinarily large projects. The largest project I've used it on was in the thousands of files (excluding node_modules) and didn't have any issues. But I know there are much larger projects out there, so I can't speak to those.

We're approaching 3000 source files in our repo so I'm not sure. That is the issue.

Here's a question: are you using git, and is node_modules ignored?

I ask because I think VSCode (by default) leans on the gitignore to decide which files to index. If it's indexing node_modules for whatever reason, that could create some serious overhead.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/fpfnle/is_there_a_w...

node_modules is in our .gitignore.

I'm not sure I was super clear above, but I'm not too worried about fixing this. Now that I have a good VIM configuration I just don't feel the urge to go back.

That's fair! Cheers

Also, thanks for being rad! I do appreciate the suggestions!

Do you have tests and install any test plugins? I found out after a while my fan was blazing because a plug-in was auto running all the tests it could find in the background. Once I turned that off it’s been tolerable.

For some reason VS Code will hang and not allow interaction or input for around 25-30 seconds. I have noticed this mostly when deleting a Python file and sometimes while editing Python. How might I debug whatever is blocking the main thread to find out if it is the language server or something else?

* Firstly, may I ask are you using Vim extension? * Can you please follow instructions listed here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Performance-Issues#... to profile the renderer process when that happens (more accurately start the profile before the hang happens and stop after). Usually extension should not block the typing so it might be something bad in the core. Once you have it captured, please file an issue

Thanks in advance for the help.

That's crazy. I use it on a small-medium Python project (100-200 files) every day and have never had any performance problems whatsoever. I did use the MyPy language server at first, which would take a few seconds to update type errors because MyPy wasn't designed for IDEs. But the UI thread remained responsive during that time. Eventually I switched to the Pylance language server which doesn't do a perfect job with checks, but gives feedback instantly.

How big is your project, and how big are your files? I've had massive JSON files (100MB or so) cause some slight jank in the UI, but that's about the only example I can think of.

I have the same problem, but I think it's an extension issue. On Ubuntu it happens, but with same extensions on macOS is not happening. I wish i could debug it. In my case it happens only when deleting files from the source tree