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Curious on advantages besides being secure. I normally have garbage computers so I like to run lean on stuff. Not to the point of using Arch but Ubuntu with i3. Also will "regular" programs still run. Like as a developer I need VS Code, Filezilla, file manager, Kate, LAMP stack installed.

Are there concerns on non-dedicated graphics cards, or running say an ARM-based processor.

Also I'm not sure what you mean by '...easy to compile...' How do you compile this? I'll have to read up on it. Get that checksum bruh.

I remember trying to use Slackware and for me that was a lot of work.

Edit: Oh I see at this time it is limited to three physical machines. Interesting on the Pi 3 part. I wonder if I could try it in Virtual box. But why try it in the first place?

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Not often someone says lean and VS Code in the same statement.

Egacs. Eight Gigabytes And Constantly Swapping.

Moore's Law. Give it another decade and it'll be Etacs.

It’s not very fast, but it’s surprisingly easy on the resources, especially memory.

Compare using VS Code w/ Typescript Language Service to any type of dev stack that includes the word “Scala.”

> It’s not very fast, but it’s surprisingly easy on the resources, especially memory.

Open VS Code and then Sublime and be amazed.

Atom and VS Code can never be 'easy on the memory' because they have to load an entire Electron instance just to idle.

> pen VS Code and then Sublime and be amazed.

At what? Using 5% more total resources? Great tradeoff!

It costs MONEY!!! Noooo.... haha

Scala with Emacs + Ensime

Do you have any experience using it with scala.js?

It's no joe, but it sure as hell beats NetBeans.

If you tell me your beef with Netbeans I might be able to help.

I have significant experience with all big Java IDEs, 3 months full time with Visual Studio (in addition to testing it on and off for years). Use Sublime regularily. Can use vim productivily for server config. Have used emacs enough to get a taste of it.

But lately I find myself getting back to NetBeans whenever possible, not because of price but because of features, sensible defaults and stability.

It runs like a slug and sits atop a mountain of RAM that it hordes like a jealous dragon.

OTOH, my hobby programming is done on an HP Mini 101.

Ok I guess even I would possibly go with something else if I was seriously resource constrained.

Yeah I used to use Atom. I know Vim is what I should use for "lean" but it's not easy to use. I did see some pretty themes 'space wrap' or something like that.

> I know Vim is what I should use for "lean" but it's not easy to use.

It's easy to use, but it's not easy to learn.

The ol' learning curve

Vim is well known for its bloated, messy codebase. I'd hardly call it "lean".

It's a messy C codebase, which is orders of magnitude leaner than a clean electron codebase.

I wasn't aware, I just think it's command line so it must be "lean" right? No GUI. I don't know.

There are plenty of "mid-range" editors and IDEs: mousepad, gedit, geany, kate..

I recently tried Geany as the chromebook I bought is ARM-based so VS code wouldn't work on it. It's alright.

I always recommend Kate to people who want a programmer's editor but don't want to deal with the esotericness of Vim.

(I personally alternate between both Kate and Vim, depending on whether I'm in more of a GUI or a CLI mood)

s/Vim/EMACS/ and you're correct. Unless you want to learn Vi, Vim is not what you want; rather EMACS is what you want, and I will agree wholeheartedly that it is "not easy to use."

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