Re:Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternati...
by fabiospampinato on Sunday March 07, 2021 @03:56AM
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I can't speak about the LSP, other than that that sounds about right to me, maybe you have a lot of free ram or some extensions installed? I would expect the memory usage to be lower than that otherwise.
You can't really compare Emacs with VSCode here, among other things you can basically get vscode to run in the browser without many problems etc. It's like saying that one can edit text with nano which is 150kb, sure but that's only part of what vscode provides you.
- VSCode itself 453MB
- cpptools (language server under the hood) 573MB
In the mean-time, I've been doing most of my work all day in Emacs and it has bloated up to 126MB :).
Edit: I will admit that the cpptools stuff is very nice. I do most of my C++ work in Emacs, but when I'm dealing with weird template type stuff I'll switch over to VSCode for the nice affordances it offers.
Edit 2: Just tried using VS Code to debug something that I can't quite grok.
Ahhh well, I can't really blame it on this one :D