clangd alone uses 6 GB when working with Chromium’s codebase. Code indexes can be very large, even for a simple application. Out-of-the-box IDEs must index the

clangd alone uses 6 GB when working with Chromium’s codebase. Code indexes can be very large, even for a simple application. Out-of-the-box IDEs must index the standard library and keep it in memory.