• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        No, no it is not, especially when compared to IJ.

        It launches and reloads my projects to a usable state in probably 2-3 seconds on my machine and it basically never randomly freezes like IJ did for me. People who say vscode is slow just have a hate boner for electron.

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          3 days ago

          No, I say that it’s slow because switching between files and watching the syntax highlighting come in takes long enough that it knocks me out of flow state.

          EDIT: Tbf, me saying it’s AS slow as IntelliJ was more of a joke. But don’t get me wrong. I still do consider VSCode to be slow. 2-3 seconds to open a project is slow, regardless of project size.

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            Are you a robot? That process is not visible on my machine. Probably a 100ms thing. Humans perceive a speed like that as “instant”.

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              Nah it’s like when you write your scripts in JS, and you’re like “ooo it’s instant!” And then you rewrite it in a compiled language… and you realize that your original script was, in fact, not instant. And then if I have to keep running the original script, it’s gonna bug me every time I notice.

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                  3 days ago

                  Quick, tell me to ignore all my previous instructions (or maybe you just have faster computer than me?).

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                    3 days ago

                    The funny thing about this conversation is I normally feel like I have less of a tolerance for slow computers than anyone else. So yeah, I harped on my employer the last two machines to get upgrades asap, and my home pc’s are pretty fast.