On my Apple M1 it takes ~33 seconds for cold-start. I use only vim and flutter extention. That said, my biggest complaint is that on this extremely fast computer, the lag between a keypress and a symbol is too big. I'm typing faster than VSCode renders characters. With vim mode enabled it sometimes goes super slow, with 1-2 sec between characters (but that's not always).

Anyway, agree with the author. Everytime I use web- or electron-app I'm just expecting sluggishness, ugliness and weird behaviors and refresh the page (=restart the app) all the time. It's just a norm. I guess no matter how people pretend that typesetting engine from 80-s is a good UI stack, they still have to pay huge price in usability, performance and orders of magnitude higher memory usage.