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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by frik on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:19PM (#9460498)
Visual Studio Online "Monaco" code editor from November 14, 2013 seems to be the predecessor: http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway/a-quick-look-at-the-new-v... (scroll half way down for many screenshots and videos)

"This is the Monaco editor component from Erich Gamma's group out of Zurich. It was originally written in JavaScript but gradually rewritten in TypeScript. When Anders speaks about teams within Microsoft building large TypeScript systems, this is one he is talking about" as one comment mentioned on a related article "It's also used in VisualStudio and IE11's new F12 tools.": http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ARichNewJavaScriptCodeEditorSp...

"Code uses a newer, faster version of the same industrial-strength HTML-based editor that has powered the “Monaco” cloud editor, Internet Explorer's F12 Tools, and other projects.": https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by danesparza on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:55PM (#9460794)
It's not.

It's based on Electron: http://electron.atom.io/

(look at the bottom of the page)

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by frik on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:19PM (#9460983)
Wrong. It is!

Look at the VSCode-linux-x64.zip in dir "\resources\app\server\" there is a "monaco.impl.js". It's the "monaco" editor component that comes from Switzerland that is also used in Visual Studio Online.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by cwyers on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:13PM (#9460922)
Electron is just what lets you run a Node app outside of a browser.
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