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		ryukoposting 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Stu... > It took ages to start. It was a memory hog and it was dog slow besides. My entire team got RAM upgrades The more things change, the more they stay the same. I used to use VS Code on some very large C projects with 16GB of RAM, and my machine would grind to a halt while intellisense was indexing.

GrayShade 3 months ago [–]

The indexer was probably clangd, not Code itself.

aragonite 3 months ago | [–]

IME more likely cpptools (which comes with vscode) than clangd.

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788332

ryukoposting 3 months ago | | [–]

That's correct. Clangd doesn't churn nearly as hard as cpptools, but it's also not nearly as good as cpptools.

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