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Are you telling me that it was a delay when you type in vscode? If so, either your configuration or computer is doing something wrong


> Are you telling me that it was a delay when you type in vscode? If so, either your configuration or computer is doing something wrong

This is simply not true. There is inherent latency in any rendering pipeline, and VSCode and Atom both have input latency that is significantly higher than other editors like Sublime Text owing to a bloated rendering pipeline. You can read more about this and how easy it is to introduce latency simply by changing basic things like keyboards here: https://danluu.com/input-lag/ or editors specifically: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/


The thing their computer might be doing wrong is just being a slightly older budget laptop, which is not a particularly rare setup.

Just try to use vscode on a ~500 dollar laptop from 2019 or something


It's super noticeable on a high refresh display. VSC is like playing a video game at 20FPS.

Vanilla settings on a high end gaming PC.




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