my 16 GB mac book pro is starting to struggle just having vs code running... FML

to be fair I've turned it off a total of perhaps 100 hours since I've gotten in 2019ish 💀

To estimate if the issue is hardware, OS level or some other software issue you could try booting a Linux USB drive and see if it can run vsCode smooth as butter.

And check the temperature. I'm not sure if OSX actually throttles the cpu if the machine is over heating but when my old Mac got super slow I found it was hotter than hell and the task manager showed some "kernel task" running high on resources as fans sped up. This was potentially due to an old swollen battery. (Never quite figured it out if it could be saved though as I got a new M1 Mac from work)

@jiraTicket temp was defintely playing a role... it started to get hot in my apartment yesterday afternoon 😂

My chromebook linux environment had trouble with VScode for s long time.

It got worse with each update, and i didn't even have plugins installed. Just the stock Editor.

WTF is microsoft putting into the source code, lots of bloat it looks like.

@max19931 telemetry!!

@iSwimInTheC which Microsoft does badly as can be seen on Windows.