alt Hacker News> A million plug-ins
> I don't use it because it's so dog slow.
You might find it runs better with fewer plugins.
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godelski • today at 4:24 AM
Load time is in seconds, even with the program cached. I can still load vim with a ton of plugins[0] and still load a project in a few hundred milliseconds.
Maybe VS Code is faster with fewer plugins but it's still "dog slow" to load and run. Only thing I'm "missing" in vim is the bloat
[0] personal I only use a handful but I've played around because why not
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Or with most language specific extensions disabled by default.
I almost disable all extensions except the ones I use all the time. Then I enable specific ones at workspace level.
Yes, it's annoying. But as an extension author, I know how some badly written extension can significantly slow down the experience, both during startup and editing. I even profiled other people's extensions and submitted feedback.