Ongoing High CPU Usage (380%) is due to TS/JS Language Features

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Using VSCode 1.34.0, my Mac continues to have very high CPU usage (380% in a scale of 400%, which is 100% per core) as long as I have VSCode open. This causes egg-cooking temperatures.

I am aware of #71751 and the MS Typescript issue microsoft/TypeScript#30663.

The following efforts have somewhat reduced the frequency of occurrence, but have not at all resolved the issue for me.

• remove all my add-on extensions
• upgrade to VSCode 1.34.0
• downgrade to VSCode Nov 2018 release
• delete the ts cache folders at ~/Library/Caches/typescript/
• ensure I am not using problematic versions of styled-components types.
• downgrade typescript
• remove typescript (as I just use JS)
• add "exclude": ["node_modules", "dist"] to my jsconfig.json file

What finally did resolve the issue was to disable the built-in TS / JS Language Features extension. I accessed this under extensions and filtering by '@Builtin'.

So I lose the TS / JS Language Features but gain back a great editor.

Thanks.

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Closing as this was just to capture my pathway.