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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The funny thing about this conversation is I normally feel like I have less of a tolerance for slow computers than anyone else. So yeah, I harped on my employer the last two machines to get upgrades asap, and my home pc's are pretty fast.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh wait that's actually probably it haha. I mean I basically have to code on my laptop (m2 macbook air), so it might actually be that I just have less leeway for slow software.

    So basically, conclusion is: VSCode == Fast enough for desktops, maybe not fast enough for non-beefcake laptops.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well I don't know about the MacBook air and maybe I'm behind the times but I feel like the M2s are fast. I do most of my work on a MacBook pro M2. I think it's about 3 years old now

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No I do find the MacBook Air pretty snappy in general. It's just that I do feel an actual very noticeable snappiness difference between VSCode and Sublime/Zed; especially for switching between files within a project. I can still be productive in VSCode (in fact, I think it was the best text editor for a short time when they had the best syntax highlighting of the lighter-ish-text editors). But once LSP was integrated in Sublime, I switched back. Zed feels fast snappy for me, though. So I've been using that more.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Interesting. I used Sublime a long time. I actually thought it was a dead project now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    it doesn't have as many features as the other editors these days, so I wouldn't necessarily recommend. But I used it for more than 10 years, so my configs and plugins pretty tuned to exactly how I like. So it's my comfy place. And it still feels faster than pretty much everything, sans some terminal editors (but those aren't as comfy for me).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I had an Intel Mac before (2017 I think?) and the M2 felt like a huge upgrade at the time. My main home machine is faster though because like you said it's a desktop. It definitely feels faster than the mac laptop on most things but it's surprising how often they feel comparably snappy.

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