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eyegor on May 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop ...

If I recall correctly, Microsoft forked their own version of electron to make vs code feel more snappy. Because normal electron runs like slack.

RMPR on May 19, 2020 [–]

I don't think so, Microsoft wanted to fork electron in the past to replace Chromium with edgeHTML, but it didn't happen. VSCode is powered by Monaco Editor github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor, and VSCode feels snappier than let's say Atom, probably because of Typescript.

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