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Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust by sharikous on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:37AM (#29549885)
The bloating cycle should merit its own xkcd comic I guess. VS Code was specifically successful because it was perceived as much less bloated then IDEs, yet much more user friendly than most editors. Now we hear complaints that it is bloated. What will be next?
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Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust by laurent123456 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:08AM (#29550056)
All "lightweight", "fast" shiny new things are so because they have plenty of missing features. But anyway is it a widespread opinion that VSCode is bloated? Because for me at least it feels fast, especially considering all its features.
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Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust by agumonkey on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @07:03AM (#29550735)
VSCode is bloated [0]. I ran a fresh install on a 1st gen i5, it couldn't process keyboard input on an empty file above 4 char per sec. Levels of lag my brain couldn't remember (and I'm a hp48g lover.. not known for zero latency).

[0] That was last year, so maybe it was a buggy release (doubt it) or maybe they made big improvements since (possible)

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Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust by vidarh on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:22AM (#29550161)
A challenge is that we tend to have roughly the same 80 percent point for things like editors, but all want different sets of features for the remaining 20. You then either end up with bloat or extensibility/plugins, or both.
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Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust by GhettoComputers on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:58AM (#29550351)
Emacs isn’t slow
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