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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by madhadron on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:54PM (#23214826)
VSCode uses a C++ backend to get that performance.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by fermentation on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:20PM (#23215058)
Yes, Chromium.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by madhadron on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:25PM (#23227926)
No, there's actually a C++ backend under there that implements the editor, if I recall correctly.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by orange8 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @11:52PM (#23218142)
A C++ backend, aka Electron.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by zingplex on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:06PM (#23214930)
I think you're confusing Atom and VS Code.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by robinduckett on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:08PM (#23214948)
VSCode uses the same c++ based regex parser for syntax highlighting as TextMate, Sublime, Atom, etc
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by karlding on Sunday May 17, 2020 @06:59PM (#23216322)
For anyone interested, this is the Oniguruma [0] regex library written by K. Kosako. It's also used in Ruby and PHP.

[0] https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma

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