I have had to open the parent folder of all the different code bases I need in a single VSCode window, instead of having an individual window for each.
I much prefer having individual windows for each code base, but the 32G of ram for my laptop is not enough to do that.
If I were to run multiple instances of VSCode, then the moment I need to share my screen or run specs some of them will start crashing due to OOM.
I don't notice much of a problem from multiple windows. I sometimes have a dozen going.
It's the language extensions in the windows that can cause me problems e.g. rust-analyzer is currently using more than 10GB! If windows are just for reading code and I'm feeling some memory pressure then I kill the language server / disable the extension for that window.
I have more problems with jetbrains. 64GB isn't enough for a dev machine to work on 10s of Mbs of code any more...
Like the sibling, I have no problem with keeping multiple windows open and I only have 16GB RAM (MacBook Pro). It must be language extensions or something like that.
I much prefer having individual windows for each code base, but the 32G of ram for my laptop is not enough to do that.
If I were to run multiple instances of VSCode, then the moment I need to share my screen or run specs some of them will start crashing due to OOM.