Hey everyone! So, I finally made the switch from OpenClaw to Continue.dev last week. It wasn't really about the features—both are amazing for AI coding!—but purely because my VS Code was getting super unstable.
I was hitting these weird freezes and lags, especially when the language server (I'm using Python with Pylance) would just... give up. My editor would become unresponsive for a few seconds every time I tried to get a completion. I spent hours disabling other plugins one by one, and the problems always seemed to lessen when I turned off OpenClaw.
My setup is:
- **Editor:** VS Code (latest stable)
- **OS:** macOS Sonoma
- **Key Plugins:** Pylance, GitHub Copilot (tried disabling this too), Prettier, GitLens, Error Lens, and of course, the AI assistant.
Has anyone else run into this kind of thing? I'm still pretty new to optimizing my dev environment, and I'm wondering if there's a known conflict or a memory issue with certain AI plugins and language servers. Continue.dev has been rock-solid so far, which is great, but I'm curious about the "why."
Maybe it's about how they both hook into the editor? I'd love to understand better so I can avoid these issues in the future 😅