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Re:Ask HN: What technical decisions make VS Code a better El... by pitaj on Friday July 28, 2017 @12:19PM (#14875375)
I'm not sure where you're looking, but as far as I can tell, VS Code uses practically zero native code. When looking to the git repository, all I see is TS, JS, CSS, and some misc stuff.
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Re:Ask HN: What technical decisions make VS Code a better El... by jplatte on Friday July 28, 2017 @01:09PM (#14875763)
I know they use ripgrep¹ for their project-wide search feature. I'd imagine that the other native code would also be separate processes whose output is parsed, or in C / C++ / Rust libraries that live in their own repos and that they use via bindings which would themselves only be JS / TS code (and might live in separate repos as well).

¹: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

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