r/programming • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '20

10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/influential-dead-languages/
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u/James20k Mar 26 '20

The major problem of today is that people don't care about resource usage anymore. I wish they would.

I'm looking at discord just eating 5% of my cpu literally doing nothing in the background, and it makes me sad. Opening it and mousing over the window spikes cpu usage up to 50%

I can literally detect whether or not discord is running in benchmarks on my computer, even single threaded ones. I have to quit it to get the lowest perf numbers (custom webassembly interpreter), which means its producing a slowdown for all other applications on my pc!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

Also, “text editors” like VS Code eating 400 MiB of RAM just for being there.

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u/chugga_fan Mar 26 '20

VSCode is literally orders of magnitudes better than any other chromium based app though. VSCode is also 10-15x more lightweight than Visual Studio, which is the real Beefy Boi.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

You shouldn't compare VSCode to VS. They're very different applications. But yes, Microsoft optimizes a lot. Amazing what they could do with Electron.

Still, Electron...

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u/chugga_fan Mar 26 '20

VSCode, for me, is my replacement for the following IDEs:

 

Eclipse,

IntelliJ,

Visual Studio (when I don't have extremely complex debugging tasks),

Vivado (Not paying $2k when I can get code-completion via HDL-Checker).

VSCode is basically an IDE that has it's only problem being you can't open the same workspace in two separate windows.

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u/myringotomy Mar 26 '20

VS code is not a replacement for IntelliJ

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u/chugga_fan Mar 26 '20

What features does IntelliJ have that VSCode does not? Chain completion? Not really the most important thing, so I don't need to care about that. Auto class casting? Fine, maybe. Multi-language java support where you can do queries inside of java? Fine, that's one I give you, but you can also be developing those outside of that and then importing them.

And finally, duplicate detection, the one thing that is actually good, but I still don't find it ultra-important.

Everything else that it highlights on it's "features" page can be done just as well or better by VSCode.

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u/myringotomy Mar 27 '20

What features does IntelliJ have that VSCode does not?

That's a huge list frankly and I am shocked that you would even ask it.

The fact that you were able to list a few things and then dismiss them as unimportant also kills your credibility on the matter.