VS Code works great in my experience.

pjmlp · on Dec 5, 2022

Thankfully to having multi-process architecture with enough of those services written in a mix of C#, Rust and C++.

chrisco255 · on Dec 6, 2022

Vast majority of the codebase is Typescript: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src. Only thing I could find written in Rust was the CLI.

Sure, under the hood Electron is powered by Chromium V8 (which also powers Node.js), which is written in C++. But that is just the basic packages and services available to all Electron desktop and Node.js apps.

pjmlp · on Dec 6, 2022

See ripgrep, and Microsoft plugins that have to be additionally installed, depending on the workloads.

dzikimarian · on Dec 5, 2022

We'll I've spent years on notepad++ and I will have to disagree (ofc VSC can be almost like full IDE but I don't have a lot of plug-ins)