My only complaint with VS is that it's optimal resource requirements always seem to be just beyond the limits of my work issued machine. Functionally I have no issues with it and it's worlds better than a lot of other IDEs that I've used.
Could you share the specs of your mschine? Visual Studio seems to run decently on my 4 GB laptop with an 8th generation i3 CPU. It does have an SSD though.
It does not run perfectly though. There is definitely a difference in input lag between VS and Sublime text.
I have an i9-9880H with 16GB of RAM, I'm in the queue for an upgrade.
VS 2022 Enterprise takes a solid 78 seconds to load to the "Open recent" splash page and idles there at 5%. Opening a 16 project solution takes another 34 seconds and the CPU hovers around 48-67% CPU for a minute after opening the solution before dropping down to around 6%. Any coding causes CPU spikes with each keystroke up to 67%. Loading a 150 line class is pretty instantaneous but it takes another 15-20 seconds for the references, last changes, collapsible UI, and inherit/override dialogs to appear.
It always feels like I'm waiting, even if it's just 5 or 10 seconds, for what I need.
Yes, VS has been terribly slow all the years. Having 64g RAM doesn’t always help much. Rider is fine on 16g, though the most recent release turned a bit sluggish after updating the SDK from RC2 to final, likely something misconfigured on my machine.
Huh. That seems odd to me but I only open 1 project solutions with not more than ~5 files open at a time, with no other applications other than my browser running. But those CPU spikes upon each keystroke seems very odd indeed.
