Well, the regular Visual Studio is a native app and has terrible performance and memory usage too.
(joking but also serious)
(joking but also serious)
We have a solution with around 30 projects in it - this solution consumes around 1.25gb of RAM in Visual Studio. In contrast, the same solution in VS Code open along with two other windows open to other solutions are using a total less than around 300mb.
Its the main reason I'm excited about Rider.