The work on VSCode began before Atom appeared. This talk by Erich Gamma about the history of VSCode is very interesting: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/event

The work on VSCode began before Atom appeared. This talk by Erich Gamma about the history of VSCode is very interesting: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/visual-studio-code-vs-code-day-2021/keynote https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/visual-studio-code-... When Erich Gamma joined the Visual Studio team in 2011, he set on creating a coding platform for the web, starting with the Monaco editor. This was followed by efforts to bring an IDE to the browser such as Monaco Workbench and Visual Studio Online IDE. However, those didn't attract many users, so the team decided to pivot to the desktop with Project Ticino using Electron by GitHub, and thus born VSCode as we know today. Arguably, this pivot has been wildly successful, from which blossomed many nice technology such as LSP, RDP, and remote coding. It is only natural that they now work on bringing VSCode back to the browser, completing the most transformative revolution in code editor for the past 10 years.