alt Hacker NewsI understand wanting your software to be well optimized, but at no point in my years of using VSCode have I ever actually had to care about how much RAM it's using. I have 32GB, I'm going to use it.
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bigstrat2003 • yesterday at 3:48 AM
I, too, would like to use my RAM. And I would like to be able to use it on the things I deem important, not to subsidize the laziness of devs who reach for Electron.
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jimbokun • yesterday at 3:52 AM
Maybe use it to run a small local LLM + Zed instead of just VS Code?
(I’m probably off on how much memory it takes to run a small LLM, but still.)
I made the mistake of buying an 8 GB macbook air m3 a while ago, thinking it would be enough. I wasn't accounting for docker or vscode. It REALLY lags. The vim mode plugin will regularly lag on nearly every keystroke, until I kill everything and restart.
On the topic of vim, the built-in vim mode in zed is really good. The helix mode is great too!!