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The description says it's lightweight, but on my machine it uses over 200 MB of RAM with no files open, and appears to be a Chromium-based thing, much like Atom (as others pointed out, it's based on Electron). Meanwhile, Sublime Text is using less than 100 MB of RAM with dozens of files open, some of them quite big. Visual Studio tends to use less memory than this, too. If "the language services [Microsoft] built for Visual Studio Code [are going to] be available in other editors as well", then I will definitely pass on this one (and this, assuming I ever get interested in developing in .NET again).

On second thought, for now this looks nothing more than a marketing trick, very well pulled off.

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Good point, I'll have to remember not to use it on any of my development workstations that have 512MB of memory.

On my machine with no files open it's at ~80-85MB RAM, VS2012 is at 500MB with nothing open. Not sure why 200MB is of any consequence unless you're in a third world country. 8GB of RAM is ~$50.

Virtual machines, yo.

Code is only using 20MB on my Win8 box.

This is interesting. I only tested it on Linux, just opened it again and it's definitely using over 150 MB of RAM, across five threads. This may mean it uses more memory on Linux than on Windows. 20 MB looks definitely lightweight, and it may be an interesting alternative to Sublime and Notepad++ which is what I use on Windows.

After opening a few files it's up to 100-150MB, so not as lightweight as I originally thought. That doesn't affect its responsiveness, though, and I have plenty of free memory.

Notepad uses very little memory; maybe you could use that instead.

Nah. Notepad doesn't even show line numbers. How hard would that have been to display the line and column?

If they fixed that and LF line ednings we would have a winner.

Yes, and while we're add it, can it really be hard to add syntax highlighting? Now let's all keep adding one small feature until we've specified a fully-featured editor.

Good god that is even worse than emacs (eighty megabytes and constantly swapping).

I don't develop on a machine with less than 8 gb RAM and you shouldn't either.

Light weight compared to VS proper, which on my mid-sized solution is sitting at 1.2GB, and 250MB with no files open.

what? you don't have a 16core/32GB RAM machine with a 4K monitor?

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