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Admittedly this is a little bit of a nitpick (and I agree with your general sentiment re: VSCode devs benefitting from prior art) but for clarity's sake — Atom
by spmurrayzzz 4y ago
Admittedly this is a little bit of a nitpick (and I agree with your general sentiment re: VSCode devs benefitting from prior art) but for clarity's sake — Atom v1.0.0 was released mid-2015. TypeScript v1.0 was early 2014 and had been usable since 2012 pre 1.0.
They were very much contemporaries of one another, though obviously TS popularity has surged since 2017/2018.
- WorldMaker 4y agoAlso, the Monaco code editor (a core component of VS Code) was started for the Azure Portal and then used by the IE Dev Tools experience for several years before Atom. VS Code didn't have Electron until after Atom, but they had a running start in several core component areas.