Hell, the Sublime dude even wrote a custom Regex engine just for highly performant searching. Presumably everything Electron based is using Irregexp under the

Hell, the Sublime dude even wrote a custom Regex engine just for highly performant searching. Presumably everything Electron based is using Irregexp under the hood, so I doubt that's a real competitive advantage. The performance difference between Atom and Visual Studio Code is interesting, given that they're built on the same framework.