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This is not a duplicate of How do I open multiple instances of Visual Studio Code?.

My previous question, How can I make Visual Studio Code's auto-complete suggestions appear more quickly? explains my problem.

I was using VSC with the PlatformIo plugin for embedded development for a few months with no problem. Then I started on Flutter/Dart and soon had a problem with auto-suggest being really slow.

It could be that I just loaded a duff plug-in (I am adding them back, one by one, to see if/when it "breaks"), but ... I am considering doing all development in VCS, so as to have a single IDE.

I am currently using Eclipse for C/C++ and PHP, WebStorm for AngualrJs and PyCharm for Python.

I had previously used Eclipse for everything, and had a different copy of Eclipse for each language, each with its own plugins.

Since I will be developing in 4 or 5 languages, even if I don't hit a problem as bad as I just did, adding plug-ins for that many languages into a single IDE will inevitably slow things down.

So, question: can I have multiple installs of VSC, each with its own plug-ins, and launch them separately?

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    you can disable extensions for particular workspaces, go to the extension page and use the dropdown at the top – rioV8 Jun 06 '20 at 06:34
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    Thanks, I knew that, but if I have multiple workspaces for one language, I don't want to enable/disable the same extensions for each workspace. I just want to do it once for each language, which is why I am thinking of a separate IDE, with language specific extensions, for each language. – Mawg says reinstate Monica Jun 06 '20 at 08:19
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    It doesn't look like it's currently possible from what I could find, but there might be some suggestions in this issue that could help you https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/40239 – coppereyecat Oct 13 '21 at 18:17

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I solved this problem on windows using vs code portable. I created a folder at the root of my machine with subfolders for each language, inside each I put the vs code, then I created a data folder inside each of them so that the information was stored locally, I modified the name of the executables and added it to the path.

As an example, to access a vscode configured for python I put code-python . at the terminal.

I Have the idea watching this video, it may help you (it is in portuguese, but you can see more os less what it does).

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See the menu \File\Preferences\Profiles. It allows you to create, import, export VS Code profiles that includes a set of plugins.

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