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Re:Atom text editor 1.7.0 released by rayiner on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @07:39PM (#11493253)
Visual Studio Code is a totally different foundation. The only shared piece is the Electron shell for embedding Chrome.
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Re:Atom text editor 1.7.0 released by jsmeaton on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @08:27PM (#11493469)
That's sort of the foundation though right? The editor built into the electron app is completely different, suggesting that atom is theoretically able to achieve similar performance.

I haven't used visual studio code myself, but does it use a mix of JavaScript and HTML to render and process the text? If so then isn't the major differences the algorithm choices for rendering and editing text?

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