VS Code Memory Usage
Discussions center on Visual Studio Code's RAM consumption and performance, with users debating if it's bloated or efficient compared to IDEs like WebStorm, IntelliJ, and Visual Studio, sharing personal experiences on various hardware.
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If you’re concerned about memory usage, VS Code should not be your first choice...
My VSCode takes considerably less RAM than Webstorm on the same project - and yet IMHO VSCode does it better.
I had tons of memory problems on webstorm, basically romping through 4GB+, it was taxing my 16GB laptop at times. Switching to vscode has been a huge resource saver.
My VS code was using 10 GB of RAM today... It's better than other electron apps, but I would argue still not efficient
The memory overhead of Visual Studio Code is insane. Don't see how they did a good job optimizing anything there.
Being a memory hog and being a much better IDE are orthogonal to one another. Get more memory. It is so much better for Javascript development than the alternatives it is worth it.
Your browser using just as much, if not more than VS code does so try again. Nowadays an IDE using 1 gig of ram isn't that horrible when it saves you tons of development time with it's tooling.
Vscode takes more RAM than Chrome nowadays so not a good option for low powered Laptops.
Is VS Code really that bad in CPU/memory usage?
VS:Code is not bloated yet. With all plugins accumulated for a certain project type it might be more bloated the visual studio memory wise. So the bloatedness deepends on what one is doing with it