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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by PeCaN on Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:35PM (#11309704)
Yeah. I thought building a text editor in a web shell was incredibly stupid until I tried VSC. It's still more memory hungry than I'd like, but it's really fast—as fast as Vim for me (but noticeably slower than NeoVim).

Did MS actually modify Electron, did they just write better JS, or some of both?

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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by voltagex_ on Friday March 18, 2016 @12:24AM (#11309893)
The reply above yours seems to think it's "just" Electron with better JS, but I'm pretty sure Atom doesn't have DirectX acceleration ;)
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Re:Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and ... by Guillaume86 on Friday March 18, 2016 @05:49AM (#11310752)
It's open source, check by yourself:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/build/gulpfi...

which use

https://github.com/joaomoreno/gulp-atom-electron

to fetch electron

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