On: VS Code Roadmap 2018

[neogodless]

Engineers like to optimize everything, including how they use their time. If you've got something in your head that you want to fix or write, you want to spend time doing just that, not staring at your screen waiting and maybe losing some of your mental model.

[OldSchoolJohnny → neogodless]

If you think a second or two matters when loading an editor you need to cut back on the coffee.

[jbergens → neogodless]

But you normally write code for an hour or many hours. Just opening one or two files for a quick fix sounds more like devops work.

[dmitriid → neogodless]

That’s why I never close the project(s) I’m working on. So my startup time is instantaneous