How Can VSCode be Improved?

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  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

    Syntax highlighting is still not fast enough for me, especially when a file is large. It’s not bad but it’s not good either. Opening up a typescript or js file I shouldn’t be seeing the colours kick in a second or 2 later. I think there are some clever tricks they could employ like prioritise the open file and load everything else after or use multi threading a bit better etc. There was an issue but it’s mainly been ignored https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/64681 I would happily trade no features for months for this to be properly worked on

  • telescope.nvim

    Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.

    Built in fuzzy finder with different sources - like current file, current project, git commits, etc. Basically something like Telescope from Neovim. And also - better vim support

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • Puts Debuggerer

    Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

    I do like the idea of difference sources, like github.com search will include git comments. I just started using git log -G text -- path/to/file.cpp for finding when something was deleted.

  • carlo

    Web rendering surface for Node applications (by GoogleChromeLabs)

    Also, have you heard of Google's Carlo? Like Electron but it runs only one Chrome on your computer across all opened apps/browser. Should fix the resource usage immensely. Unfortunately it's unmaintained :(

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