Comment by Solvency

3 years ago

And yesterday I was mercilessly downvoted for saying VSCode is slow compared to software from decades ago.

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SkeuomorphicBee  3 years ago

I'll have to agree to disagree. In my experience IDEs are the one type of software that were always slow, Eclipse is two decades old, and it's slowness was on a whole different level.

  • atchoo  3 years ago

    Visual Studio 6 was very fast even on my PoS machine at the time.

    Faster than Jetbrains on an M1. Not used VS for a while but holy shit that crapped the bed in 2002 performance wise.

    • SkeuomorphicBee  3 years ago

      I remember differently, I remember visual studio 6 bringing my PC to is knees (although to be fair I was a broke student and my PC was a potato).

cmcaleer  3 years ago

At least you’re getting a lot for that, though I don’t love Electron either. What does notepad.exe of today have over notepad.exe of 25 years ago? UTF-8 I guess. Not sure if find and replace was a thing in the olden days. Better line ending support too. I’m really wracking my brains here to think of stuff