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0 pointsbitmapbrother8y ago0 comments

Technically, VS Code is based on Google software.

0 pointsbitmapbrother8y ago0 comments

Technically, VS Code is based on Google software.

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chungy8y ago· 2 in thread

Which in turn is based on Apple and KDE software.

saagarjha8y ago

Look at all the nice things you get from open source software!

bitmapbrotherOP8y ago

I must have missed their cross platform GUI development framework.

make38y ago· 2 in thread

just curious, isn't vscode based on Atom, which afaik is a GitHub project?

denisw8y ago

VS Code and Atom are based on Electron, which is a platform by GitHub using the Google Chrome browser engine, which was forked off Apple‘s WebKit engine, which was forked off KHTML from the KDE project.

make38y ago

that's a pretty big leap to call it a fork of a Google project

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