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I interviewed with the VSCode team at Microsoft Zürich (didn't get the job because there were more senior candidates that already contributed to the open source
by thenanante 4y ago
I interviewed with the VSCode team at Microsoft Zürich (didn't get the job because there were more senior candidates that already contributed to the open source repo, fair game). I have to say I'm super impressed that a small team in Switzerland managed to build and maintain it! Coming from that point of view it's imo totally okay that there are some proprietary parts. If it doesn't generate revenue in one way or another, we wouldn't have it. FOSS is cool and all but someone has to pay the devs eventually.
- GartzenDeHaes 4y agoVSCode is the core component for Microsoft's GitHub Codespaces developer tools as a service cloud offering. https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces
- williamstein 4y agoYour comment seems to suggest VSCode is mostly developed by a small team in Switzerland. VSCode is also significantly developed in Redmond (at the Microsoft HQ near Seattle).
- thenanante 4y agoYes, Redmond got involved later due to the immense success. Doesn't take anything away from the fact that the core is being developed by a small team in Switzerland.
- 908B64B197 4y ago> I have to say I'm super impressed that a small team in Switzerland managed to build and maintain it! Well, there's two reasons I can think of it happened there [0] [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_F%C3%A9d%C3%A9rale_de_Lausanne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_F%C3%...
- thenanante 4y agoI studied at ETH Zürich and am Swiss. It still always surprises me how competitive we are as such a super small country.