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> To adopt Chromium as the base for VS Code? Ehh, using Electron to write a relatively lightweight wrapper for Monaco (the editor component that was developed
by vertex-four 9y ago
> To adopt Chromium as the base for VS Code?
Ehh, using Electron to write a relatively lightweight wrapper for Monaco (the editor component that was developed for an entirely different product) was an obvious technical choice if you were no longer restricted to only using Microsoft technologies. There's not a reasonable/supported alternative to Electron within Microsoft.