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Yeah, I figured they were rolling the turd in glitter one more time.

I’d love to see their IDEs re-platformed on Electron. I’m not ordinarily a fan, but VS Code has shown us how good an Electron-based IDE can be (while Atom showed us the opposite).



> I’m not ordinarily a fan, but VS Code has shown us how good an Electron-based IDE can be

yes, if you invest hundreds of millions of dollars and spend hundreds of man years on trivial things like "we can't make terminal output fast because web tech".

Do not mistake a single success story achieved through insane effort and unlimited money with "this is the way".




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