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Comment by daigoba66 | Hacker News Reader

I'm curious about how the editor itself was built. Is it itself written with cross-platform .NET? And if so, what UI library?

Edit: Got my answer. Electron and TypeScript: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/593454574297427968

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The Visual Studio Code shell is built on GitHub's Electron Shell, but the editor is a new and improved version of our own Monaco editor, which we use on Azure Websites, Visual Studio Online, and a number of other web sites, and in the F12 Tools in Internet Explorer.

Electron is formerly known as Atom Shell, which powers GitHub's Atom editor.

http://electron.atom.io

It'll be interesting to see what the performance is like, since this has been a recurring problem with web-tech based applications (especially editors like Atom and Brackets).

Actually seems to work better than Atom or Brackets so far... I found both to be intolerable pretty quickly... this, I'll be continuing with for a couple days, I like the UI better than sublimetext so far.

I don't really understand the sentiment that you have expressed in your aside. If they deliver an interesting and/or useful product, why not reward them with credit?

removed it... I just don't like when I sound like a company shill. In this case imho the editor itself actually runs than my trials with brackets and atom... The startup time is actually tolerable, and the editing seems to work a little better too. A few days will determine if I go back to sublime again.

that was my thought too, testing it on my MBP - like Brackets and Atom, it showed up in `Apps Using Significant Energy`

Can access without school or work account, I don't know how to get this.

It will evidently be available "later today": https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/593454156779687937

EDIT: Apparently at 11AM PDT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459632 (aka in an hour-ish)

Get it from https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

How is the editing experience? Is it faster than Atom?

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