I’m so glad someone undertook the task of de-bloating VS Code!
<a href="https://github.com/Sidenai/sidex" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://github.com/Sidenai/sidex</a>

theacademe

A project called Sidex has replaced VS Code's Electron runtime with Tauri, aiming to reduce the bloat associated with Electron-based desktop apps. The GitHub repository offers a lighter alternative to the standard VS Code distribution by leveraging Tauri's Rust-based backend instead of Electron's Chromium/Node.js stack.

VS Code, with Electron replaced with Tauri!

I am interested if this is intended to remain fully compatible and uptodate.
Can we expect this to be 100% usable also going into the future?
Are there talks with bringing this code into actual VSCode?

If this is adopted into VS Code, it would be huge!

I’m confused, why is shipping the browser engine as part of the product ( for a consistent experience ) not worth a couple or extra MB ?