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Re:Electron 4.0.0 by bitwize on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:55PM (#18735040)
It's because much of the guts of VSCode is written in C++ and optimized.

Because, you know, Microsoft.

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Re:Electron 4.0.0 by sime2009 on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:35PM (#18736395)
No it's not.

The file searching code is in Rust (IIRC) and runs as an external process, but that is about it.

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Re:Electron 4.0.0 by InGodsName on Friday December 21, 2018 @01:31PM (#18735376)
So eletrons lets you code part of it in C++?
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Re:Electron 4.0.0 by fabiospampinato on Friday December 21, 2018 @02:06PM (#18735664)
You can have native modules in Node.js, and you can use Node.js inside Electron.
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