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I think it's referring to Microsoft's own Electron-powered apps, like VSCode. There have been rumblings in the past about MS wanting to fork Electron and replac
by TimTheTinker 8y ago
I think it's referring to Microsoft's own Electron-powered apps, like VSCode. There have been rumblings in the past about MS wanting to fork Electron and replace Chromium with EdgeHTML in their fork, but it sounds like the strategy has changed to forking Chromium and using that in their future Electron fork instead.
I have no idea if this correctly interprets the SwiftOnSecurity tweet, but that's the best I can make of it.
- cjbprime 8y agoThat sounds fine, it just sounds unrelated to a decision to kill off Edge. You can maintain Edge as a web browser while using Chromium Electron. If you're Microsoft, your decision on whether or not to maintain Edge as a web engine is unlikely to completely pivotally depend upon whether you end up choosing Chromium Electron or Edge Electron. So the tweet doesn't make sense to me.
- cozuya 8y agoOff topic but I'll be that guy: I am continually blown away by just how good VSCode is and how it very much overcame two huge obstacles: being an election app, and its poisonous name.
- manigandham 8y agoPoisonous name? Are you referring to Visual Studio? That's widely considered as one of the best IDEs around.
- JBiserkov 8y agoYes. At the same time it's hated by many anti-MS folks, especially in the Linux/OS X crowd.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoIf people choose to hate it for fanboy reasons that's their loss.
- TimTheTinker 8y agoI don’t know any anti-MS folks anymore. Those who were that generally stopped hating MS when MS stopped being a threat to the existence of their preferred platform, or to open source in general.
- manigandham 8y agoIf people hate it just because they're "anti-MS" instead of based on product qualities then it's not the name that's poisonous.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoI think its more than just them using it for their apps. I think they want to turn Electron into a reusable Desktop UI framework for Windows and given the fact they now own GitHub they can force that for the Windows rendition of Electron. It all seems like almost a bad idea if it makes Edge too reliant on Chrome. I really was hoping Microsoft would instead have fully open sourced Edge. Edge could use some community love to make it a sweet out of the box Windows browser.
- jodrellblank 8y agoI think they want to turn Electron into a reusable Desktop UI framework for Windows What, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop ?