People used to fret about emacs being "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping"
I'm running all this stuff on a beefy desktop - I don't really care if it takes 200MB RAM to open a file as VC Code has lots of features I really like.
> People used to fret about emacs being "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping"
People used to edit code on a 1 MIPS 8MB 32BIT DEC VAX 11/780.
With 30 people doing the same, concurrently.
> I'm running all this stuff on a beefy desktop - I don't really care if it takes 200MB RAM to open a file as VC Code has lots of features I really like.
I have a bunch of machines. From ARM boards, ARM-based gadgets, Intel-based ultra-light laptop to a beefy Intel-based desktop.
If a tool runs a text editor editing a small file in 3/4 GB RAM, what will it do if the technology is used to develop some actually demanding things?
That's a narrow view point. You as a developer have a "beefy" desktop. What about your users? Most people in the world don't have "beefy" desktops. These days, 2GB and 4GB machines are still the norm.
I don't expect end users to have VS Code or VS Studio and things are tested in end-user appropriate environments? I don't see what development tools and target environments have to do with each other - 'bloat' in the latter does not necessarily mean bloat in the deliverable?
Edit: I've worked with people in my career who complained about 'bloat' in C (vs assember), C++ (vs C), Unix, Emacs (vs vi), Java (vs C++)
Complaining about the latest round of tools being bloated is just what a subset of the developer community does at any moment in time (and this is not necessarily a bad thing).
But developers do expect them to run the crapware that they "develop", such as Slack, Spotify, etc., which are often worse than VSCode. Neither should be acceptable.
> I've worked with people in my career who complained about 'bloat' in C (vs assember), C++ (vs C), Unix, Emacs (vs vi), Java (vs C++)
I don't find that VS Code does much out of the box that I couldn't do with Geany or Notepad++. It's all in the plugins for any of these text editors. VS Code is probably the most performant Electron app I've ever seen, but it's floor is about 10x the native apps, because it has a whole damned sand-boxed browser running in it.
roughly 750MB RAM...