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> In the meanwhile VSCode has become the most used editor by developers and it's not even close

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t VSCode an Electron app? ie a webapp shipped together with a stripped down browser

I know that GitHub Codespaces open as a full VSCode editor in my browser so I always assumed it was the same code.

I’ll never understand “stripped down browser” like it’s some curse. Any managed language brings its own runtime. C# brings CLR runtime, Java brings JVM, Go brings its own runtime.

I’m not saying it’s a curse, I’m saying it’s a webapp. Because the person I’m replying to used it as an example of something you can only build as a native app.

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