Just briefly browsing the source this is a much more minimal version of VS code--many of the extensions microsoft packages and ships aren't in it. I don't doub

Just briefly browsing the source this is a much more minimal version of VS code--many of the extensions microsoft packages and ships aren't in it. I don't doubt that helps reduce the JS bundle significantly and as a result gives you much speedier loading times. For example there's no terminal or any of its extensions in this version of VS code.