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One semi-pedantic correction: Visual Studio Code is not just Atom with a different skin. It uses Atom Shell (now called Electron), but that's just the app host.

One semi-pedantic correction: Visual Studio Code is not just Atom with a different skin. It uses Atom Shell (now called Electron), but that's just the app host. The editor component is completely different - it's 200K lines of TypeScript code. So you should think of Atom and VS Code as two different websites viewed in the same browser rather than the same app with a different skin.

lojack 11y ago
> Visual Studio Code is not just Atom with a different skin. And debugging tools that actually work. A strong debugger has always been the reason Visual Studio has excelled, and they've brought that to an open source editor.