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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by gitgud on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:56AM (#23254923)
VSCode was a fork of the open-source project Atom, and it was never closed-source as far as I know.
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by nindalf on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:54AM (#23255240)
VSCode was not a fork of Atom. They started afresh. This is possibly why it’s much more performant than Atom.
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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by gitgud on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:59AM (#23255891)
Interesting, I always thought VSCode was a fork of Atom.

After some research, it looks like electron was previously called Atom-shell, which is where the confusion comes from for a lot of people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221917

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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by WorldMaker on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:27PM (#23274631)
It's also interesting to note that the core editor component/library of VSCode (called Monaco) predates Atom. It was used in a variety of places in Azure even before Atom built Atom-shell/Electron, and got a lot of early stress testing in powering the Dev Tools source code views in IE as far back as at least IE 10, IIRC.
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