Comment by mikeocool
1 year ago
I find the more plugins I add to vscode to do all of the automation, keypresses become more and more sluggish. It seems like it wouldn’t be noticeable — we’re talking about milliseconds.
But I find there to be a world of difference between every keypress being processed as I touch the key versus slightly after it.
With enough experience on a given language you just of internalize a lot of the common linter rules.
I use ctrl-space to activate autocomplete when I need it, but I find when it pops up automatically to be maddening.
I’ve been using AI autocomplete more and more, though it’s a real mixed bag between seeming magical and guessing the completely wrong thing.
> vscode to do all of the automation, keypresses become more and more sluggish
The problem is VS Code then. Try IntelliJ, they spent ridiculous amounts of engineering to make typing as fast as Vim.
> I find when it pops up automatically to be maddening.
Me too, the first thing I do in my IDE is disable that. I love autocompletion, but I want it only when I need it. Now, that's completely different from just saying I don't need autocompletion at all.
> though it’s a real mixed bag between seeming magical and guessing the completely wrong thing.
Agree completely. Sometimes I am totally amazed at how it knew exactly what I wanted to write. But sometimes it misses the mark for sure. This tech is just going to get better though, so I like being able to use it while it improves and notice the difference with every new model.
> The problem is VS Code then. Try IntelliJ, they spent ridiculous amounts of engineering to make typing as fast as Vim.
I presume that does not apply on an old laptop with 8 GB of RAM.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying there, but in a discussion about being maximally productive, old laptops with 8GB of RAM just don't come into the equation.
> It seems like it wouldn’t be noticeable — we’re talking about milliseconds.
Yeah, I've used xterm for so long I found it a pain a few years ago when I had to use gnome-terminal, because keypresses have enough latency to be noticeable. I never expected that from a terminal.