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Only Typescript is in-house. Others are acquisitions. Do you remember Embrace, extend, and extinguish times? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and

• CharlieDigital 2y ago
  Does the distinction matter?
  • hnlmorg 2y ago
    In the case of GitHub, yeah. I don’t think a Microsoft source control “social network” would have taken off in the same way GitHub did. In fact when Microsoft purchased GitHub, quite a few people did leave and close their account. But GitHub already had such a monumental market lead that the departures ended up being a drop in the ocean. To be honest, I’m still waiting for the moment when Microsoft managed to fuck it all up like they did with Skype.
    • LtWorf 2y ago
      I've left later on, when they started to impose 2FA and decided to scan all my code to train their AI.
    • p_ing 2y ago
      Don't forget prior to GitHub Microsoft ran the home-grown, TFS-enabled Codeplex. It worked quite well if using Visual Studio but obviously, like Skype, there was no reason to run it when "something better" came along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodePlex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodePlex
• strongpigeon 2y ago
  VS code is mostly in house too. Sure, they don’t own Electron, but I was at MSFT when project Monaco (which became the basis for VS Code) was started and remember being very impressed by it back then
  • bitwize 2y ago
    They own Electron now...
  • foobarchu 2y ago
    Text editors and IDEs come and go, there is very little commitment to using one. If you write a project in C#, you've committed to it and it's ecosystem. Getting out of there when MS makes a choice you don't agree with is going to be near impossible.
    • ZeWaka 2y ago
      Eh, these days there's a lot of investment in the VSCode extension ecosystem.
  • Svoka 2y ago
    They acquired Electron alongside with Atom with GitHub. It is hard not to make parallels between Atom and VS Code
• mb7733 2y ago
  From whom was VSCode acquired?