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Only Typescript is in-house. Others are acquisitions. Do you remember Embrace, extend, and extinguish times?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

VS code is mostly in house too. Sure, they don’t own Electron, but I was at MSFT when project Monaco (which became the basis for VS Code) was started and remember being very impressed by it back then

They own Electron now...

Text editors and IDEs come and go, there is very little commitment to using one.

If you write a project in C#, you've committed to it and it's ecosystem. Getting out of there when MS makes a choice you don't agree with is going to be near impossible.

Eh, these days there's a lot of investment in the VSCode extension ecosystem.

They acquired Electron alongside with Atom with GitHub. It is hard not to make parallels between Atom and VS Code

From whom was VSCode acquired?

Does the distinction matter?

In the case of GitHub, yeah. I don’t think a Microsoft source control “social network” would have taken off in the same way GitHub did.

In fact when Microsoft purchased GitHub, quite a few people did leave and close their account. But GitHub already had such a monumental market lead that the departures ended up being a drop in the ocean.

To be honest, I’m still waiting for the moment when Microsoft managed to fuck it all up like they did with Skype.

I've left later on, when they started to impose 2FA and decided to scan all my code to train their AI.

Don't forget prior to GitHub Microsoft ran the home-grown, TFS-enabled Codeplex. It worked quite well if using Visual Studio but obviously, like Skype, there was no reason to run it when "something better" came along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodePlex

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