Plugin is significantly slowing down Godot 4 editor

[HauntedBees]

I've been using this plugin since the 3.x days but recently I've noticed that Godot 4.1 had been running extremely slowly. I upgraded to 4.1.2 to see if that was the issue and it was still running slowly. After trying several other things, I started disabling plugins one by one, and after disabling godot-wakatime, everything is working as expected -- no delays when switching between scripts in the script editor, no freezing when trying to rotate a 3D scene. This is a recent issue; I'd been using v1.5.0 of the plugin for a few months now and only within the past few weeks has this slowness been noticeable.

Plugin Version: 1.5.0
Godot Version: v4.1.2.stable.official [399c9dc39]
Platform: Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon 5.6.8 Kernel Version 5.15.0-86-generic
Processor: Intel© Core™ i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz × 4
Memory: 32GB

[gandarez]

The only thing I can see is Godot doesn't run the wakatime-cli in the background and freezes the main process?

[gandarez]

Looking deeper to the code it's using an older version of wakatime-cli v1.54.0. It should always use the latest version as much as possible.

https://github.com/thomazthz/godot-wakatime/blob/master/addons/wakatime/wakatime.gd#L9C7-L9C23

[HauntedBees]

Hi @gandarez - I updated the code to use the latest version of wakatime-cli - v1.85.1 - then re-enabled the plugin. It installed the right version, and immediately began running slowly again. When the plugin is active, switching between different scripts in the Script Editor goes from being immediate to taking over 2 seconds, and saving a file goes from taking under half a second to taking around 3 seconds.

I cannot downgrade to version 1.4.0 of godot-wakatime as 1.5.0 is the first version to support Godot 4.

[gandarez]

@thomazthz does wakatime-cli run in foreground and blocks the UI?