SideX
VS Code rebuilt on Tauri instead of Electron (96% smaller)
Details
- External ID
- 47611572
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- SideX
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7062982005141388
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer utilities and gaming mods
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- code editor built with tauri instead of electron
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Rebuilding VS Code onto Tauri requires decoupling Microsoft's massive Electron-dependent Monaco and extension host subsystems and replacing Chromium-specific internal APIs with cross-platform OS webviews.
What it would actually take: This requires deep expertise in VS Code's internal architecture, Tauri (Rust), and platform-specific WebKit/WebView2 quirks. One must re-architect VS Code's process isolation model, rewrite the native node module bindings and IPC channels to communicate via Tauri commands, and patch Monaco editor to avoid DOM and rendering discrepancies across differing webview engines.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Zed, VSCode
Concerns raised: Performance (RAM and CPU usage)
Feature requests: Firefox engine instead of Electron
Competitors
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