[bad_user]

It has the rendering engine of a browser and that also has some advantages in rendering capabilities. Browsers are really good at rendering rich text, it's what they were designed for, and a native editor can't beat that.

There's the occasional big text file that I have to open, in which case Vim would do a better job. But usually VS Code has no performance issues for me.

[jhoechtl]

Me as a Vim fan I thibk its save to say that even vim doesn't handle large files well and is especially bad with files containing long lines.

[xfer]

Same with Emacs, long lines for even a small file is problematic.