Slow "PlatformIO: Rebuilding IntelliSense Index" only first time when reloading VScode after installing PIO

It can take up to 1 minute and 30 seconds for “PlatformIO: Rebuilding IntelliSense Index” to finish for the first time. If this is normal then we can close this issue. The Project Tasks are unusable in this duration which is annoying.

I see this in the console when the problem appears: [Embedded Page] Failed check of PIO Core library updates for undefined TypeError: Cannot read property 'options' of undefined Not sure if it is related.

Reproduction steps:

1. Close VS code if open
2. Delete the local .platformio folder
3. Launch VS code
4. Wait for PIO to finish installing and reload VS code
5. Observe slow “PlatformIO: Rebuilding IntelliSense Index” (On my end it is around 1 minute and 30 seconds)

This is what it looks like while it is going:

I’m on Windows 10 and Latest VScode

[ivankravets]

Please click on the “terminal” icon on the bottom status bar (blue) and type

pio project init --ide vscode

Does it hang?

[atsju]

PS C:\GIT\ESP3D> C:\Users\myName\.platformio\penv\Scripts\pio project init --ide vscode
Updating metadata for the vscode IDE...
Project has been successfully updated!
PS C:\GIT\ESP3D> 

Command did not hang