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The syntax highlighting is done in process using a declarative format, eg: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/extensions/g....

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I was referring to the paragraph about Swift and Source kit. To my knowledge, the majority of editors do not do syntax highlighting outside of the main editor process.

Oh I see. Yes that does seem prohibitively slow.

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