To be fair, MS send a world class engineer to make JavaScript usable for codebases at that scale.

>How many of us remember that VSCode is actually a browser wrapped inside a native frame?

The new standard, Web Apps. Why update 3 seperate binaries for Win/Lin/Mac when you can do 1 for a web framework and call it a day?

VS Code has two things that worked well for it. Web Tech and Money. Web tech makes it easy to write plugins (you already know the stack vs learning python for sublime). And I wonder how much traction it would get if not Microsoft paying devs to wrangle Electron in a usable shape.

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