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Dec 17 20202 min read

# Pratham Prasoon - Coder Community Spotlight

[Ben Potter](https://coder.com/blog/author/bpmct)

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Meet Pratham, a 16-year-old student and developer. He shares development tips and resources to his 25K Twitter followers on topics such as machine learning, backend development, new libraries, and learning to code!

**Tell us a little bit about yourself** Hey there! I am Pratham Prasoon, a high school student. My work mainly involves coding in Python and TensorFlow for machine learning and JavaScript for web development.

**What brought you to code-server?** Running VS Code on my 5-year-old Dell XPS 13 laptop with Manjaro KDE on it is very tough, especially with many browser tabs open in Chrome. It slows down my system to a point where it is unusable. I started using code-server hosted locally on my system instead of VS Code about 2 months ago and it runs much faster than VS Code!

**That’s interesting. Many people use code-server on a remote server, but more and more people are hosting code-server locally to improve their performance. What benefits are you seeing from this?** It takes up less ram and CPU usage. Moreover, everything feels super snappy. This is a huge lifesaver when running npm scripts or Dockerfiles because they take up a lot of CPU usage; it is nice to not have the overhead of VS code while running these scripts.

**How else do you see code-server being used?** Another place where I use code-server is with Google Colab for my machine learning projects. Using a pip package called ColabCode, I can run code-server on Colab using Google's servers with super-fast GPUs for free!

This is useful when I feel like writing code in a text editor like VS Code rather than a Jupyter Notebook like Colab while still using their super-fast hardware.

**What else do you think people should know about code-server?** code-server has no telemetry, almost every extension I need, and has the same features as VS Code, such as support for Jupyter Notebooks!

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