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Takes an age to load up, but I guess once it's launched you can keep it open, so there is that.

I load up my editor once per day...if it's not still open from yesterday. You can CTRL+W to close a tab, but there's no reason to kill the whole app. I perpetually have a terminal, editor, and browser open. As long as CTRL+N or CTRL+T are instant, and it's instantly responsive after ALT+TABbing into the app, startup times are negligible/immaterial.

I guess that sometimes I'm in VSCode, while other projects might be in Notepad++, Visual Studio, or various vendor-specific IDEs, but a project will last weeks to months.

What's your workflow if not tabs and workspaces? Why would you ever close the whole application?

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