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VSCode was a fork of the open-source project Atom, and it was never closed-source as far as I know.
by gitgud 6y ago
VSCode was a fork of the open-source project Atom, and it was never closed-source as far as I know.
- nindalf 6y agoVSCode was not a fork of Atom. They started afresh. This is possibly why it’s much more performant than Atom.
- gitgud 6y agoInteresting, I always thought VSCode was a fork of Atom. After some research, it looks like electron was previously called Atom-shell, which is where the confusion comes from for a lot of people. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221917
- WorldMaker 6y agoIt's also interesting to note that the core editor component/library of VSCode (called Monaco) predates Atom. It was used in a variety of places in Azure even before Atom built Atom-shell/Electron, and got a lot of early stress testing in powering the Dev Tools source code views in IE as far back as at least IE 10, IIRC.