Is vscode that notoriously slow as a damn snail?? I can barely use it sometimes. I’m on a MacBook Pro that I bought new last year, so it’s not a potato.

Then again my last job issued a thinkpad, not my top choice bc I like Mac’s but vscode ran somewhat ok on that ugly thing

>> "I'm on a MacBook pro"

I'm sorry to inform you that you are indeed running a potato. A pretty, overpriced potato with a fancy logo on it, but a potato nonetheless.

I have over 100 extensions and endless workspaces, it's a bitch when you first open it, but after that it "works on my machine"

I have no issues with VS code on Mac

Chances are you have or two Extensions that eat most of the performance. VS code has an amazing feature that lets you bisect the problem by inly enabling half of the extensions at a time and asking you if the problem still remains. Then depending on your answers it divides and conquer further until it isolates the responsible extension. You can try that if you have some installed, got nothing to lose anyway

Electron apps being electron apps! 🤷🏻‍♂️

don't forget: vscode is not meant to be used for development. vscode only exists so that regular visual studio has the selling point of "not being THE most terrible IDE out there"

@tosensei except they really failed on that mark, VS is beyond terrible.

@C0D4 well, it's still _slightly_ better than vscode - since the latter can't use ReSharper.

@tosensei thanks, I’m losing my sanity with how laggy vscode is. Even highlighting or typing for fucks sake can freeze it and I’m at my wits end.

How many extensions do you have?

I used to use VS Code, but it wasn't fun to do my PHP work with, so I just bought a PhpStorm subscription and my life improved.

I seldomly use a barebones VS Code if I need to open a file once in a while, but it was really eating a lot of resources when I used it.

Update-it runs smooth and all I had to do is restart it. lol

@Hazarth Wow this is amazing, I have this often that an extension just dies after an update and spins one core 100% and I have to disable every extension one by one to figure out haha