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Exploring data structures for a text buffer implementation. It's a whole new world but really exciting and well documented. So far whats sticking for me is the VS Code Article code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/…

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12/6/26, 9:10 am0 reposts1 like

Matthew Bub

@matthewbub.com

12 June

The author mentions they began with an array of strings and eventually ran into memory limitations, notably when splitting on line breaks while opening large files. It's inspirational that the VS Code team took an array of strings so far to begin with

Matthew Bub

@matthewbub.com

12 June

and I agree with the idea of pushing simple solutions as far as they can go I'm going to listen to the words of wisdom, I won't be using an array of strings specifically for the reasons highlighted in this article. Jumping forward with exploring other data structures..