Visual Studio Code Intellisense is very slow - Is there anything I can do?

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Edit: Pylance seems to be much better at this and has so far resolved all problems with the previous Python language server from Microsoft.

I\'m using VS Code an

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Maybe it's Jedi. I mean its awesome but ... Tinkering with Jedi myself on bigger code bases I can confirm that it might be uber slow at times and pretty hard to figure out what the problems are... :/

Solution might be to switch to another language server! The VSCode Python extension has a "Language Server"-setting:

aka python.languageServer.

Pylance is MS own new language server. I just tried it and it all seems a little snappier. As of today this is tagged as Preview. So there might be improvements around the corner.