On: Using Rust in Windows

[ranveeraggarwal]

VS17 has an option to "quick load" projects. It loads up in a jiffy (unlike it's previous versions), but you cannot use some of the IDE features.

I seriously hope they add a lazy load feature in the future.

[goldfire → ranveeraggarwal]

There's a feature called Lightweight Solution Load [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/...] which does seem to just lazily load projects.

But even with that turned off, opening large solutions is vastly faster than in VS2015.

[oblio → ranveeraggarwal]

Isn't quick load just a rename of lazy load, based on your description?

[ranveeraggarwal → oblio]

Nope, apparently quick load doesn't load several IDE features at all. What I mean by lazy load is that it should incrementally load the IDE features after the IDE starts.

[stavros → ranveeraggarwal]

Jeez, the obvious optimization would have been to load some of the features first and then load the rest, but to not load them at all? That's not very useful.

[oblio → stavros]

Well, as a back-seat commenter I agree with you but they probably had a good reason to not do it. Most likely something to do with development complexity. There's a ton of smart people working on Visual Studio, I'm willing to trust their judgment on this :)

[stavros → oblio]

Well, they definitely had good reason, it's just that the feature isn't very useful without the extra work. Although, I don't know exactly how much functionality is missing, so I might be wrong.

[oblio → stavros]

Well, it might just be laying the groundwork for lazy loading. They probably thought some people might find it useful even as a "half feature".

[stavros → oblio]

Yeah, that seems like the most reasonable explanation. It sounds like the answer was just "deadline".