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Comment by pjmlp

6 days ago

Because it runs a bunch of background processes in C++, Rust, and does text rendering via WebGL.

Programmer editors with such capabilities are decades old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)

I know they use a lot of background processes to get the performance, the point is it works pretty well.

As to the second, I'm unaware of a gui editor with a built in interactive terminal prior to VS Code.

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