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Discussion on: Switching back to my old buddy Sublime Text from VS Code 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Brandon Conway

I made this exact same switch last week! I got tired of my 16GB MBP being unresponsive. It isn't just 4GB machines, VS Code will bring any machine to it's knees when using flow and the vscodevim.

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Sarthak Sharma

Yeah, my point exactly.

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Paul Fox

I tried vscode for about a week. It locked up on a 32gb workstation. I had better luck with eclipse based IDEs in the past, but I'm done with any software that uses more than 500mb of RAM including OS processes if I have a choice. Unfortunately I have to watch my work laptop hog 6gb for MacOS and Forcepoint...