Sounds to me like you have underpowered hardware. I use it constantly for all kinds of tasks and the fan never even spins up. I haven't heard "spinning out of control causing the CPU to cook" anywhere else
> Sounds to me like you have underpowered hardware.
It's a text editor. It should run fine on whatever hardware I have. In this case, it's a fairly modern 15" MacBook Pro so even a full featured IDE should be just fine.
It has happened to me with some frequency. Sorry but I dont buy the under-powered hardware excuse when vim or Sublime perform great in the same computer. And for the record I really like VS Code, but I am not deluded.