A lot slower initialization compared to VS Code C# Dev Kit

[Imlimp]

When I load my project in vs code it takes about 20 seconds to initialize. When I load the project in neovim is takes 5-10 minutes to initialize. Why can this be? Is this something that can be solved?

[jmederosalvarado]

Hmm, I've never experienced this on my side. How big is your project?

[Imlimp]

It is quite a large unity project. About 8000 *.cs files and 33 *.csproj files

I can also mention, if I load a small project it loads instantly. Same behaviour on multiple computers.

[jmederosalvarado]

if you clone your project to a different path and open it for the first time in vscode, does that first time take a long time or loads quickly?

EDIT: I think I saw something related to project snapshots in the vscode extension, so I'm trying to figure out if it's caching some project info to make it load faster.

[Imlimp]

I tried your request. The project loaded almost instantly even when it was a completely fresh directory.

Would be awesome if something like that would be possible.

[Issafalcon]

I am seeing the same issue with large codebases containing multiple projects (i.e. In my day-job on enterprise software).

It would be great to switch over to using this plugin / roslyn, but this is the only thing that prevents me from moving away from omnisharp lsp.

Have you had any luck with your caching investigations @jmederosalvarado ?

[Issafalcon]

@jmederosalvarado - So I've just tried this plugin out again to replace the omnisharp lsp, and the speed has significantly improved on the initialization on the same project I was having slow initialization times with before.

Not sure what's changed since my last comment, but kudos for you for getting this plugin in place!