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It's a good thing they waited until there was a Raspberry Pi available with four cores and 8GB of RAM.

VSCode is by far the lightest Electron app I've ever used. I currently have a decent sized repo open, with a good number of plugins, and it's using 0% CPU and 12MB ram on Windows (and I haven't restarted the app in probably 2 days).

Teams on the other hand... that's a hog.

Does it not depend a lot on what plugins and the size of the files? I'm sitting here in a small Python repo and I am at 260MB with no files open.

Sure, plugins can be very powerful and can therefore eat up any amount of resources. If you've got a language server that's doing the work of a full-on IDE behind the scenes, resource usage will go up accordingly.

But the GP wasn't talking about plugins. They were invoking the tired trope that Electron App Go Brrr, which isn't especially true in the general case, and is emphatically not true in VSCode's case.

The Panzer IV is by far the most agile and nimble medium tank I've ever used.

Raspberry Pi can be frustrating that way. Their product lines vary so wildly in performance that it can be confusing and misleading for new or inexperienced users.

Often I’ll see people praise the Pi for being “a $5 computer”, then go on to discuss their projects which would definitely not work on the Pi Zero.

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