Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by rhencke on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:59PM (#17221971)

No, it's not a fork. They both run on Electron, so they share a common runtime environment, but they share no editor code.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jonny_eh on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:10PM (#17222095)

Wasn't Electron created for Atom? If so, VSCode is at least using a part of Atom.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by rhencke on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:24PM (#17222229)

That doesn't make Electron _a part_ of Atom. If I build my application on top of Linux, my application is not _a part_ of Linux.

Electron is its own application framework, that Atom builds itself on top of. Electron is not a text editor framework, no more than QT or Cocoa is.

It is _very_ fair to say VSCode is using Electron - heavily, in fact! But saying VSCode is using part of Atom is just not true, and implies VSCode is building atop the Atom editor, which it does not.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Gaelan on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:14PM (#17222128)

I mean, by that argument Windows uses Unix because C was written for Unix.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by johannes1234321 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:19PM (#17222644)

At least historically Windows used different parts of UNIX. i.e. they used BSD's TCP/IP stack for quite some time. Also used "UNIX services for Windows" and recently added the Windows subsystem for Linux.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by ezekg on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:58PM (#17221960)

VSCode is built on top of the same framework as Atom, Electron, which was previously called Atom-shell.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by frutiger on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:04PM (#17222033)

It's worth noting that the core contributors to Electron are Github employees.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by toyg on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:34PM (#17222323)

That gives the acquisition a very different perspective.

What if MS is really buying Electron? It’s something they’ve been using a lot in all their recent products, and it’s a key technology in the contemporary development landscape. Making it more Windows-friendly would definitely help them.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by statictype on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:33PM (#17223462)

Improving Electron can be done far cheaper and easier than acquiring a company.

The only thing GitHub has that Microsoft can't easily get on their own is the user base. That's what this acquisition will be about.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by H4CK3RM4N on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:54AM (#17224761)

But controlling a leading platform so completely isn't cheap.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Rapzid on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:13PM (#17224005)

They can also ensure the next electronconf isn't cancelled. Everyone wins!

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by nielsbot on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:17PM (#17222156)

Well, answering myself... Looks like it uses the Electron Shell project which was part of Atom

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/04/30/microsofts-cross-plat...

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by gschier on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:57PM (#17221954)

No, not at all. The only common component (I think) is Electron (Atom shell).

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by spicyj on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:57PM (#17221947)

It’s not. They are both web-based but otherwise unrelated.

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