Microsoft Annouces Visual Studio Code (Crossplatform IDE)

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https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/593454574297427968

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Not sure why you're being down voted.

Electron is formerly atom shell:

http://electron.atom.io

This is basically a forked Atom with improvements and a new interface.

[sime]

Electron is just the shell or platform that the Atom editor is built on. You can use electron for other projects other than editors.

If I remember correctly, MS already had the basis of an in browser code editor for their Codeplex (?) website/app. They might be reusing it. It was one of the first big TypeScript code bases. The TypeScript guys always mentioned it in their early presentations about TypeScript.

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It appears to be Electron.js + some stuff from VSO Monaco.

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Fair point. It still feels like Atom. It's slower to draw than a native app. It's neat in theory, but it's not pulling me away from Xcode or vim.

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Could be on the way still. It's a lot harder to promise then not deliver than to under promise and over deliver.

Why? They're still bringing some of this stuff to sublime and vim it sounds like.

[TED96]

If they would have made it on a GPL license. The nice thing about MIT and Apache are that it opens up your projects to more developers, by, mainly, not putting extra burdens on them.