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Yeah. I thought building a text editor in a web shell was incredibly stupid until I tried VSC. It's still more memory hungry than I'd like, but it's really fast
by PeCaN 11y ago
Yeah. I thought building a text editor in a web shell was incredibly stupid until I tried VSC. It's still more memory hungry than I'd like, but it's really fast—as fast as Vim for me (but noticeably slower than NeoVim).
Did MS actually modify Electron, did they just write better JS, or some of both?
- voltagex_ 11y agoThe reply above yours seems to think it's "just" Electron with better JS, but I'm pretty sure Atom doesn't have DirectX acceleration ;)
- Guillaume86 11y agoIt's open source, check by yourself: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/build/gulpfile.vscode.js https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/build/gulpfi... which use https://github.com/joaomoreno/gulp-atom-electron https://github.com/joaomoreno/gulp-atom-electron to fetch electron