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Comment by pjmlp

7 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)

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tracker1  6 days ago

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.

  • mfro  6 days ago

    Atom, sublime, visual studio, eclipse, probably every single jetbrains editor…..

    • tracker1  14 hours ago

      I guess with Sublime it's in the "TerminalView" package that works for mac and linux, but not Windows that I have to use for work, and was using when I switched.

      Atom is slow AF, and I hated using it (same for Brackets). AFAIK, it's using the same terminal code as VS Code.

      I haven't seen an integrated terminal prompt in Visual Studio (not code), you get an interactive command window, and misc output windows though.

      Eclipse, hadn't seen an interactive terminal there... I guess it's another 3rd party plugin of some kind?