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by carussell 3810 days ago
It is built on Electron Shell, but vscode is a lot more than a preselected set of plugins for Atom. Most of vscode was written from scratch in TypeScript or assembled from existing (non-Atom) parts. The editors don't really share code.
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+1 vscode is just using Electron Shell, not entire Atom. vscode is a well executed project. During initial testing vscode seemed much more responsive than Atom to me.
Yeah, VSCode definitely seems more responsive. I tried giving Atom a try 2-3 times now, but it always seemed "laggy" for lack of a better word.
I can crash Atom pretty consistency, especially with semi large projects. VS Code I haven't managed to crash at all.