Re:Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
by fuyu on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:10PM
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I very much prefer using Vim, but the debugging experience is much better in VSCode. The language server experience in VSCode is also better (though vim is getting there!), and there are many other small trade-offs that one may prefer.
Emacs I haven't tried nearly as much, but it has a poor Windows OS experience, and is also historically a "bloated" software ("Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping").
Of course there is no reason Vim couldn't be modified to do everything VSCode does but better, but until that happens VSCode will still have a place in my toolbox.
What exactly can it do that Vim or Emacs can't? Vim starts up literally 100 times faster on my machine, with 17 active plugins. It also runs everything in a single thread and is still more responsive than VSC in almost all scenarios.
What are those stupendously complex features that somehow make a slow start unavoidable? Or to go with your comparison, why do you think Eclipse has a good reason to start so slowly, on a modern 8+ thread CPU and SSD?