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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.

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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.

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