Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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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