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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