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Visual studio had a UI rewrite to .net about a decade ago.

VSCode is electron.

If they had kept maintaining the old thing maybe they would experience less performance issues, which you say is suffering from age, but actually they threw out the old thing and rewrote on costlier and more recent frameworks.




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