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Anyone tried to build it from sources, I bet what would kill this editor in the end is slow rust build time and complexity of language.
by diimdeep 3y ago
Anyone tried to build it from sources, I bet what would kill this editor in the end is slow rust build time and complexity of language.
- soap- 3y agoWhy would that kill it? Have you ever tried to compile a browser?
- diimdeep 3y agono browser is fully built with rust, and that is why.
- shakow 3y ago> I bet what would kill this editor in the end is slow rust build time I hope you don't know how long it takes to build Linux/llvm/macOS/gcc/Chrome/Firefox/...
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- 149765 3y agoFull debug build on my 7 year old pc takes 1m 33s with all dependencies already downloaded.
- itishappy 3y agoVS Code cannot be built from (public) sources at all, and that doesn't seem to have affected it's market share. > Building VS Code application is proprietary and hence this is not shared, but you can always build your own open source version of VS Code by cloning it. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/18083 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/18083