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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 rememb
by 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 agoThey own Electron now...
- foobarchu 2y agoText 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 agoEh, these days there's a lot of investment in the VSCode extension ecosystem.
- Svoka 2y agoThey acquired Electron alongside with Atom with GitHub. It is hard not to make parallels between Atom and VS Code