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Visual Studio Code
@vscode.dev

You may have noticed that search on the VS Code website has gotten a lot quicker lately. In our latest blogpost, João Moreno breaks down the engineering process behind docfind, a search engine we built that runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly: code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/0...

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Daniel Rosenwasser
@danr.bsky.social

It has to download the index and the search logic, but those are both lazily loaded (only when a user starts searching) and it's cached afterwards. Personally I think getting instant results locally is a better experience, but I'm wondering if it's a huge issue for people.