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I've never heard of Figma, but the reason VSCode is as good as it is now is because it's has had increasing parts of it being re-written in C or C++ along with

I've never heard of Figma, but the reason VSCode is as good as it is now is because it's has had increasing parts of it being re-written in C or C++ along with other extensive performance modifications to the electron runtime by the vscode team.

dabber 8y ago
> the reason VSCode is as good as it is now is because it's has had increasing parts of it being re-written in C or C++ Is that true? I've heard that said before but I've also heard that's not true. I haven't been able to find anything indicating any parts of it are written in C/C++ either. The GitHub repo for VScode doesn't have any C in it; infact it doesn't have much but JS/TS: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
- chx 8y ago
  I do not know vscode but Atom's C++ parts are in a separate repo https://github.com/atom/superstring https://github.com/atom/superstring
- systems 8y ago
  not always true, sometimes they use better data structures https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-reimplementation https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
  - dabber 8y ago
    That's a really interesting link; thanks.
- Matthias247 8y ago
  I agree. Afaik the core of the editor logic in VsCode is all typescript. There are some native parts, like obviously electron. And I think the find-in-files function uses ripgrep, which is written in rust. But that's a far stretch from "increasing parts of it being re-written in C or C++".