# What IDE do you use?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [September 21, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-ide-do-you-use/47006 "2020-09-21T13:13:54Z")\
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> [@DNF](#):
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> Google Chrome started out relatively snappy, and gradually grew, over the years, to the bloated hog it is now. I hope VS Code can avoid that fate.

Probably will not. It’s a sign of the times, more memory used. Before Emacs was blamed as resource hungry, for similar reasons:

Chrome (or some other slightly better web browser, like Firefox), is not fully to blame Websites are now more resource-hungry, as JavaScript is used and it’s a Turing complete language (ok, Google’s V8 JS engine made it really practical to use JS to a large extent), so you CAN’T limit memory without killing tabs, or, in case of IDEs, extensions. Windows 98 had “16 MB of system RAM” requirement and famously came with Internet Explorer 4, so web browsers necessarily do not need much memory… (w/o JS). Older Windows was limited to 2 MB and had IE available.

We’re never going back to small, e.g. as modern browsers with fast JavaScript need MORE memory to be faster as they compile (just like Julia, we shouldn’t be throwing stones in a glass house).

Since the IDEs are really web browsers, with all those capabilities, I foresee videos in some ads for extensions (or built in tutorials)…

I see Theia works, but some issues, and link from there to an issue:

> [@Compatibility between Theia and the Julia VS Code extension](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compatibility-between-theia-and-the-julia-vs-code-extension/46047):
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> I discovered [Theia](https://theia-ide.org/) as a possible alternative to VS code in [this thread](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/github-annouced-codespace-does-it-mean-atom-is-now-abandoned/38923/24), and decided to give it a try. It looks like a lot of features from the Julia VScode extension work out of the box, which is in itself an incredible achievement. However, I keep getting crashes from the LanguageServer, with an output like the following: [ Info: Starting the Julia Language Server [ Info: Symbol server store is at '/home/theia/.theia/globalStorage/julialang.language-julia/symbolstorev2'. [ Info: Received new…

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