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Rethinking the IDE for the 2020s
All I need is fast text editing, fast navigation, fast syntax highlighting, fast fuzzy finding. Keyword is fast.
The_rationalist
on Feb 23, 2021
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Have you considered buying a zen cpu? It's worth it
92g3r2ogr9asof
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Should I have to upgrade my CPU to get acceptable performance out of a TEXT editor?
jhasse
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Yes. It's way cheaper. You can get a new CPU for $200, but you can't rewrite VSCode in the time that money would provide.
cain
on Feb 23, 2021
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Why is the only other option to rewrite VSCode? How about another editor? Vim, <space, doom, etc>emacs...?
jhasse
on Feb 24, 2021
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Okay then replace "rewrite VSCode" with "turn Vim/Emacs into the same IDE experience as VSCode/IntelliJ".
The_rationalist
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Well a modern editor is more akin to an exobrain than a simple text editor. Anyway recent intellij is pretty fast, also it is more memory bound than cpu bound.
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