points by ksec 5 hours ago | 0 comments
>It was even one of the chief complaints about VS Code when it was first launched.
That was absolutely not the case at all. At least not on HN or twitter. It was for Chief Complaints for Atom. When VS Code first launched everyone was suggesting how much faster it was compared to Atom. And how a properly tuned Electron Apps could be fast. And Microsoft promised it will get even faster that makes everyone excited.
The only few of us who were complaining was how could everyone judge this to be fast when we have Sublime. And that was even before Sublime had GPU rendering.
[–] SideQuark 3 hours ago
Googling if it was a common complaint around launch time shows plenty of threads on it across all the usual sites at that time.
[–] eddythompson80 2 hours ago
I think OP is both right, and there was people still complaining about it. Atom was seriously slow. Everyone said you couldn’t build a fast text editor that could compare to native ones. VS Code came and it was significantly faster. Atom was slow to the point of not being usable to some, while VS Code was perfectly usable. The people wanting vim or Sublime performance were still upset and wrote about it, but vscode was perfectly usable and fast enough for the majority of people. It was indeed held as an example of how to make a performant electron app. Still an electron app, but not absolute slog. Tbh, if you disable all extensions in vscode, it’s still fairly fast, and doesn’t even take that much memory. It’s not as usable without extensions though.
I find it odd you see otherwise.
And VS 2026 is faster than VS Code these days, now that they spent time optimizing it.