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More details in XDA Developers interview with Kan Liu. Also suggesting GPU acceleration support later this year

https://www.xda-developers.com/chrome-os-linux-app-support-g...

My prediction: VS Code / Pixelbook becomes a formidable devenv for many in the coming months ;)

You can always try Neverware on a live usb to get a taste

https://www.neverware.com/freedownload

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> Google hardware with Microsoft software praised on HN

Technically, VS Code is based on Google software.

Which in turn is based on Apple and KDE software.

Look at all the nice things you get from open source software!

I must have missed their cross platform GUI development framework.

just curious, isn't vscode based on Atom, which afaik is a GitHub project?

VS Code and Atom are based on Electron, which is a platform by GitHub using the Google Chrome browser engine, which was forked off Apple‘s WebKit engine, which was forked off KHTML from the KDE project.

that's a pretty big leap to call it a fork of a Google project

I wrote that the Google Chrome engine was forked, and that Electron is using (not forking) it.

The ironic thing is that VS Code is made in web technology.

linux -> android -> browser -> linux -> browser -> VS

Not exactly, it's more like

    +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
    | Linux kernel + Android kernel bits                                 |
    |         |                                                          |
    |         |                                                          |
    | Various and sundry                                                 |
    |         |                                                          |
    |         |                                                          |
    | Wayland compositor -----------------------------+                  |
    |         |                                       |                  |
    |         |                                       |                  |
    | Wayland browser windows     Wayland surfaces proxied from Qemu-KVM |
    +--------------------------------------------------------------------+

I've missed the irony here.

Official announcement at 32:50 in the Google I/O Developer Keynote.

https://youtu.be/flU42CTF3MQ?t=1970

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