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Recently switched to VSCode from Jetbrains IDEs on MacBook Air M1, amazed at how much faster my editor boots up, and generally also more responsive. Haven't noticed any memory issues either, I only have 8GB RAM

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Just when you thought the cycle of slower software gobbling up the gains of faster CPUs couldn't possibly continue forever...

Maybe, but I regularly go two days on battery now. That's something I've never experienced with a laptop before. Notwithstanding inefficient software

How recently? If you installed IntelliJ during 2020 it didn't have native ARM support yet[1], and had to be reinstalled to get it, so it would have been running in emulation.

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/12/intellij-idea-2020-3...

I was using the ARM version, by slow I mean I can see the splash screen for a couple of seconds. Whereas VSCode starts up instantly. I've got `alias c='code .'`, typically I open the editor from iTerm2 the same way I would use vi. IntelliJ is still more advanced in many ways. I guess the point I was trying to make is that Electron looks like a better platform for cross platform apps compared to JVM.

Also, many NeoVim plugins are using component from VSCode, and the other way around.

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