Visual Studio Code
Dev tools
code editor
SHOW HN2017
236points
83comments
#112of 2,242 in 2017
Top 5%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
13 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.
Performance: 3 for, 5 againstDesign: 4 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Works well on ARM devices and Chromebooks
From 2 comments
Great to see. I use VS-code on my Arm Chromebook and it makes for a nice on-the-go dev environment. Also nice to see ARM getting some attention. Still too many places offer Linux…
Lerc on HNI've got a Asus C201 (4GB, only $185) and it runs quite smoothly. This is with Redis and Postgres running in the background.
hebrox on HN
Strong open source project backed by Microsoft
From 1 comment
Sublime is like 2 people. VSC is an open source project with a strong backing from Microsoft.
swah on HN
Objections
Electron makes it slow and battery-hungry
From 3 comments
Well, it's Electron...
qeternity on HNOf course electron is fast, it builds on years of work making v8 fast. My main issue is battery life. I just need to open one electron app (Discord, Slack, Spotify even though…
gant on HNThat means it isn't fast. Your CPU is fast and electron is making it consume an insane amount of resources to do trivial things. If it were truly fast, it would not affect your…
lawnchair_larry on HN
Startup time and UI jank
From 1 comment
Faster how? In my experience, VSC's cold boot startup time is just as bad as Atom, and it's not immune to interface jank - for example, when unfolding the "tree view" on one of…
AlexMax on HN
Requests
Run inside Chrome as a web app
From 1 comment
I run Debian in a chroot on my Asus Flip via Crouton. It works brilliantly. Chrome manages the hardware, power management, networking, etc; and then I can pull up a terminal and…
david-given on HN
Multiple project root folder support
From 1 comment
Faster how? In my experience, VSC's cold boot startup time is just as bad as Atom, and it's not immune to interface jank - for example, when unfolding the "tree view" on one of…
AlexMax on HN
Questions
What is the performance on ARM compared to x86?
From 1 comment
Out of curiosity, what's the performance of VSCode on ARM compared to X86?
zamalek on HN
Alternatives named
Sublime Text
From 2 comments
While VS Code will support ARM, paid solutions such as Sublime Text aren't. This is why I love FOSS.
brunoluiz on HNVS Code is subsidized by Microsoft. Sublime Text is a single guy. FOSS in this case is a big company copying a single individual and destroying their business by doing a better…
bhouston on HN
Atom
From 2 comments
Don't let Atom be your electron example, it is actually slow. Try VS Code instead. - signed, former Atom user.
softawre on HN> I swear Electron is incredibly fast in every instance I've used it That's really surprising to me, I've had completely the opposite experience. Just resizing a window shows how…
lol768 on HN
Caret
From 1 comment
I use Caret[0] where my project is saved in an SFTP folder on a server, so it's kept off the machine in any case (and guessing you can set up some kind of deployment hook from…
wastedhours on HN
Vim/exVIM
From 1 comment
Wow, I haven't tried vs-code until today after I read this post. I'm surprised how well it works on my mac and it is so far awesome with VIM plugin. I might actually change from…
nergal on HN