Motoko VSCode extension slow intellisense

[senior.joinu]

Experiencing super-slow intellisense in VSCode. Sometimes it stucks completely, I have to re-open the IDE.

What could be the problem?

[kayicp]

wow i thought i was the only one

thanks for making this thread

[Seb]

Agree

Please improve the Motoko extension performances

The Motoko extension (for VS-code) is amazing in terms of features but it’s extremly slow on larger projects once you exceed a certain number of LOC and imports, my IDE takes 5 seconds to react on Type changes, most of my imported packages are either local or in .mops. The issue is described in more details here: Performance issues with larger repos · Issue #388 · dfinity/vscode-motoko · GitHub In terms of developer priorities, this is hands down my #1 Motoko-related pain point at the moment —…