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This analysis examines concerning performance and privacy issues discovered in Trae IDE, ByteDance's fork of Visual Studio Code. Key findings include excessive resource consumption (33 processes vs 9 in VSCode), persistent telemetry transmission despite user settings, and concerning community management practices.
During evaluation of development environments for a personal project, I conducted a comparative analysis of three popular IDEs: Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Trae (ByteDance's VSCode fork). This analysis revealed significant discrepancies in resource usage and network behavior that warranted deeper investigation.
After reporting this issue on Trae's Discord server (reference), the development team acknowledged the problem. Version 2.0.2 addressed some concerns, reducing the process count by approximately 20 processes. However, Trae still maintains significantly higher resource usage than comparable IDEs.
When I attempted to discuss these findings on Trae's Discord server, i got spanked with gag-hammer https://discord.com/channels/1320998163615846420/1335032920850825391/1398374824987852891
