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>Well, offline VSCode is a glorified browser as well. Not really, it may use electron for the front end, but a huge amount of what makes vscode useful and fast

>Well, offline VSCode is a glorified browser as well. Not really, it may use electron for the front end, but a huge amount of what makes vscode useful and fast is the native binaries that power all of its functionality.

Zababa 5y ago
What are those native binaries? I know that VSCode ships with ripgrep, but that's the limit of my knowledge. Those binaries probably could be compiled to WASM to make VSCode fully run in a browser too.
- JasonCannon 5y ago
  The Language Servers that power all of the intellisense and syntax highlighting and stuff are all native code. As are the compilers and everything that make VSCode more than just a text editor.
  - Zababa 5y ago
    Good points, you still have to rely on an OS for all that stuff.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    And none of them require Electron, because they run out of process.
    - afiori 5y ago
      well, the browser is not going to provide them.
      - pjmlp 5y ago
        The server backend will, and this is also a way to run VSCode on system browser without Electron bloat.
  - aozgaa 5y ago
    I think the typescript compiler and language service are implemented in typescript and compiled to JavaScript.
- charrondev 5y ago
  Language servers for any non JavaScript language? Python, rust, Go, C++, and many more. Additionally the ability to say.. start a web server and run it? The ability to run the actual generated binaries from any of those other languages?
  - coldtea 5y ago
    >Additionally the ability to say.. start a web server and run it? The ability to run the actual generated binaries from any of those other languages? You could trivially had those with VSCode in the browser. They just run on a remote build/CI/CD environment.