Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
by sime2009 on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:20AM
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> Both VS Code and Atom use significant amounts of WebAssembly and low level libraries to achieve that performance.
Atom has some internal data structures written in C++. VSCode uses a native executable to do the file search, but no further low level magic is used to make it go fast.
I don't think any of them are using WebAssembly yet.
Atom has some internal data structures written in C++. VSCode uses a native executable to do the file search, but no further low level magic is used to make it go fast.
I don't think any of them are using WebAssembly yet.