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VS Code does become slower for me on my MacBook M1. I typically don't restart the app unless I have to. After few days of usage, scrolling the code area becomes so slow (<20fps) that I have to restart the app. I haven't experienced such slowdown in other IDEs, such as Xcode or Qt Creator.

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I wonder if there are any other native IDEs with the same level of functionality. I feel like electron is forcing me to compromise on performance in exchange for features.

What projects do you typically work on? I would say VS code only excels at JavaScript or perhaps newer languages with a robust LSP.

What sort of features do you find most important from VS Code?

I work on full stack typescript applications.

The most important features for me would be responsiveness (I usually have multiple projects open simultaneously, and performance tends to degrade after a few days) and memory consumption.

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