One of the most powerful features of vscode is extensions. Until zed has a comparable extension set to rival all the things I use in vscode, I couldn't care less about 50ms vs 70ms lag on keystroke renders.
Response time matters, but man, there's just such toxicity abound with people who act like speed is all that matters, and act all high and mighty that things are so bad.
These modern systems do soo much helpful stuff. The responsiveness out of the box is pretty not bad if not stellar, and then these plugins really layer in whole worlds of help. Like in so many places, this complexity & nuance can just get totally eaten to pieces by the hungry wolves happy to shred anything showing any signs of being insufficiently super l33t for their superb sensibility.
> such toxicity abound with people who act like speed is all that matters
Maybe it is a point of obsession to some.
But I've experienced that sensitivity to latency is very subjective.
Maybe there's an age component as well, with younger people being more sensitive.
When I use other people's computers and they have not optimized the latency (e.g. running a sluggish Windows with lots of background processes stealing the CPU, Alt+Tab taking several hundred milliseconds, etc.) I get angry, and I don't understand how anyone can live with a computer that is orders of magnitude slower than your own reactiveness.
jauntywundrkind|2 years ago
These modern systems do soo much helpful stuff. The responsiveness out of the box is pretty not bad if not stellar, and then these plugins really layer in whole worlds of help. Like in so many places, this complexity & nuance can just get totally eaten to pieces by the hungry wolves happy to shred anything showing any signs of being insufficiently super l33t for their superb sensibility.
sshine|2 years ago
Maybe it is a point of obsession to some.
But I've experienced that sensitivity to latency is very subjective.
Maybe there's an age component as well, with younger people being more sensitive.
When I use other people's computers and they have not optimized the latency (e.g. running a sluggish Windows with lots of background processes stealing the CPU, Alt+Tab taking several hundred milliseconds, etc.) I get angry, and I don't understand how anyone can live with a computer that is orders of magnitude slower than your own reactiveness.