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VS Code cannot be built from (public) sources at all, and that doesn't seem to have affected it's market share.

> Building VS Code application is proprietary and hence this is not shared, but you can always build your own open source version of VS Code by cloning it.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/18083

Why would that kill it? Have you ever tried to compile a browser?

no browser is fully built with rust, and that is why.

Full debug build on my 7 year old pc takes 1m 33s with all dependencies already downloaded.

> I bet what would kill this editor in the end is slow rust build time

I hope you don't know how long it takes to build Linux/llvm/macOS/gcc/Chrome/Firefox/...