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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.



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




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