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Re:VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS... by 908B64B197 on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:13PM (#31614333)
> I have to say I'm super impressed that a small team in Switzerland managed to build and maintain it!

Well, there's two reasons I can think of it happened there [0] [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_F%C3%...

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Re:VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS... by thenanante on Saturday June 04, 2022 @03:09AM (#31617816)
I studied at ETH Zürich and am Swiss. It still always surprises me how competitive we are as such a super small country.
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