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Off-topic question about VSCode - it is Electron based, which was released in 2013. Now, Microsoft had/has team in Zurich, Switzerland - they've specially opene
by zerr 8y ago
Off-topic question about VSCode - it is Electron based, which was released in 2013. Now, Microsoft had/has team in Zurich, Switzerland - they've specially opened the office to hire Erich Gamma (of Eclipse and DP fame). The team led by Gamma was working on VSCode predecessor (I think), in 2011... So what happened there? Did they abandon most of the stuff and switched over Electron later?
- rhencke 8y agoThe project was called Monaco. It was a massive success, and has since been open sourced here: https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor Visual Studio Code joins the Monaco editor with an Electron-based environment to provide desktop text editing. That's about as opposite as abandoned as you can get.
- tauchunfall 8y agoYes. The teams at Microsoft working on VSCode are in Zurich and Seattle (AFAIK).
- WorldMaker 8y agoPlus, Monaco powers more than just Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Team Services and the Azure portal uses Monaco as editor of choice in a large number of places. Monaco powers online REPL/sandboxes such as Typescript's playground [1]. IE10+ and Edge Dev Tools are powered by Monaco (and the minimized gunk of the average random webpage sources was an early impetus for Monaco to have much of the performance we see in VS Code today). [1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/index.html https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/index.html
- saagarjha 8y agoI think godbolt.org uses it as well.
- zerr 8y agoInteresting. So the original plan was to create only an online ("in the cloud") editor?