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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The literal most popular IDE amongst software developers is VS Code that's built on Electron.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know. I also use VSCode. However I just hate how much ram it uses. I had a Laptop with 4Gb of ram and I could not open VsCode on that thing when I had literally anything else open because the system would freeze.

Just because VsCode uses Electron doesn't mean that Electron is not bad

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf, it's typically language servers and extensions causing cpu and memory footprints. If you were to open a dumb txt file, I doubt you'd encounter issues. The app itself is pretty light. I say this as a neovim user who has managed to make its memory footprint balloon ^_^

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can confirm. No matter how lightweight your IDE claims to be, if rust-analyzer uses 1GB RAM per project you have open and takes 30 seconds to start up, then that's that.

Source: learned Neovim having been promised it would be a lightweight alternative to a more mainstream IDE that would also speed up programming with keyboard shortcuts. By the time I added enough plugins to make it usable, only one of those two things was even debatably true.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think parsing code and all the dependencies will require way more than 120MB of RAM so for VS Code the overhead doesn't matter that much. For smaller apps 120MB of ram is insane.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lite-xl with LSP gives you most of the features of vscode (they’re both lsp) at a tiny percentage of the system resources

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In my experience LSP actually consumes quite a bit of resources. I'm using nvim with LSP and it's definitely not tiny percentage of what other IDEs are using. The editor is light, LSP is not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I love vs code but that does not mean electron doesn't suck