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I thought VSCode was a fork of Atom. Did I just make that up?
by nisegami 4y ago
I thought VSCode was a fork of Atom. Did I just make that up?
- colejohnson66 4y agoYou did ;) Its design was clearly inspired by Atom, but it was written from the ground up
- pjmlp 4y agoYes, it used to be called Monaco initially. https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/ https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/ Also Erich Gamma from Eclipse fame, and GOF book, is the main architect. "VS Code an Overnight Success… 10 years in the making" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hilznKQij7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hilznKQij7A VSCode remote editing on Github is it returning back to its roots.