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Re:Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs (from Clojur... by delecti on Friday October 06, 2023 @07:43PM (#37797736)
Intellij does a lot, and VS Code is very light. Some people prefer an IDE that does a lot, but some don't care and benefit from VSC being lightweight. Also, some projects are janky, and VS Code is easier to get to ignore that jank. Plus, I find VS Code's hotkeys to be much more intuitive as a long-time Windows user and hotkey addict.

No matter what I do locally, the final word is a pipeline build. A command line is closer to that than either IDE, so at times I've really appreciated VS Code mostly getting out of my way.

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Re:Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs (from Clojur... by kaba0 on Saturday October 07, 2023 @03:10AM (#37799672)
> VSC - lightweight

Are we talking about the same thing?

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Re:Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs (from Clojur... by theanonymousone on Saturday October 07, 2023 @06:11AM (#37800477)
If you've seen IntelliJ, you won't have any problem calling VSCode lightweight :D
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Re:Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs (from Clojur... by theanonymousone on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:08AM (#37800222)
Exactly. Being lightweight is important when you are running the thing on some cheap VPS. Also the multi-lunguality, since you don't have "room" for multiple IDEs.
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Re:Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs (from Clojur... by ezst on Sunday October 08, 2023 @01:11AM (#37808021)
> VS Code is very light

Did you actually measure that? In my experience, once you've added the bare minimum of language support/LSP that's far from the case (and at comparable memory footprint VSC ends up doing less and is just less capable)

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Re:Java 21 VirtualThreads vs. Clojure Lazy Seqs (from Clojur... by delecti on Sunday October 08, 2023 @09:08AM (#37810126)
Honestly I didn't care about any objective measure, development "felt" less laggy in VSC.
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