Re:A brief reflection on Mac software stagnation
by unfocussed_mike on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:41AM
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I really have trouble with the idea that VS Code is "clunky".
Not least because one of the apps I used to use -- Panic's Coda -- had really severe keyboard lag issues in some situations, on hardware that should have been fine with it.
In my experience VS Code is plenty quick enough, not least when I am editing something inside a VM or on a remote server using the Remote SSH mode.
It might show a bit of keyboard latency but the Remote SSH mode more than makes up for this, for me; the sheer flexibility it offers me as a developer means I am going to ignore a bit of general latency.
And we've put up with worse in IDEs and programmers' editors, for sure.
One thing I would observe about speed complaints in VS Code is that they come from people who navigate through text mostly through keys; people with a vi or emacs back-story.
There is no doubt at all that it repaints more slowly than some editors when scrolling down through code line-by-line or page-by-page with the arrow keys etc., because of all the code actions that fire off when the cursor moves.
But it is not noticeably laggy when scrolling with a trackpad, because the cursor does not move.
This difference probably explains people's very polarised and simultaneously valid responses to VS Code.
Not least because one of the apps I used to use -- Panic's Coda -- had really severe keyboard lag issues in some situations, on hardware that should have been fine with it.
In my experience VS Code is plenty quick enough, not least when I am editing something inside a VM or on a remote server using the Remote SSH mode.
It might show a bit of keyboard latency but the Remote SSH mode more than makes up for this, for me; the sheer flexibility it offers me as a developer means I am going to ignore a bit of general latency.
And we've put up with worse in IDEs and programmers' editors, for sure.
One thing I would observe about speed complaints in VS Code is that they come from people who navigate through text mostly through keys; people with a vi or emacs back-story.
There is no doubt at all that it repaints more slowly than some editors when scrolling down through code line-by-line or page-by-page with the arrow keys etc., because of all the code actions that fire off when the cursor moves.
But it is not noticeably laggy when scrolling with a trackpad, because the cursor does not move.
This difference probably explains people's very polarised and simultaneously valid responses to VS Code.