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As someone who spends all day in IntelliJ there's no way it's 10x as fast, hell for me it's flipped the other direction.

VSCode is easily 10x faster than IntelliJ. If I'm writing Java I'll happily use IntelliJ but anything else it's VSCode or vim.

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Same here, in a legacy code base with millions of lines of duplicated code that I unfortunately had to work on, IntelliJ would not even let me type, it just froze up all the time. Atom also sucked, fuzzy finder locked up the UI for 10 minutes. VSCode I can cold boot & start using the fuzzy finder, no issues. Feels like vim, in that it "just works". So performance is more dependent on what the software is doing, not what UI toolkit / runtime it uses. VSCode is faster on this codebase because it seems to not block editing due to a search index, like the others -- which has nothing to do with Electron vs Java.

Sure vim beats out both of them but I'm constantly having to wait for VSCode to catch up with me or my cursor will start inserting characters at the wrong spot. IntelliJ works as fast as I can think (minus the boot up time).

I use Eclipse with its native SWT UI and VSCode still blows it away in UI speed.

Actually, if Mozilla's Servo tech gets integrated into something like Electron, then we will have some serious performance capabilities surpassing pretty much anything else comparable.

I believe the VSCode team is indeed looking into using webassembly.

Are you running stock or loaded with plugins ?

Stock Android IntelliJ, VSCode with a few plugins(Vim bindings mostly).

Android "yes, you gave me 2 GB RAM for Gradle for building a 10 MB APK, but I'd still like more" Studio.

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