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by sime2009 2685 days ago
> Even though large performance-sensitive parts of it like the editor buffer data structures etc are (AFAIK) implemented natively

Actually they are not. The search in VSCode uses an external exe writing in Rust, but that is about it as far as custom native code goes.

Atom though did add some native code data structures.

Claims that VSCode is "inconsistent, it's full of random glitches" doesn't match my experience at all. It's solid. Maybe it could be faster, but I find its speed acceptable and regularly run it on a laptop with an Intel i3 CPU.

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For someone coming from the Eclipse/Netbeans or Rubymine world, VSCode feels super snappy to me. I love it.