Project Ticino: Microsoft's Erich Gamma on Visual Studio Code past, present, and future
'We decided to not use any UI frameworks ... we want to be fully in control of our own destiny'
Tim Anderson
Thu 28 Jan 2021 // 13:29 UTC
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Visual Studio Code only succeeded because a failed online editor was pivoted to become a desktop product, according to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Erich Gamma.
Gamma spoke at the virtual VS Code Day yesterday on how the world's favourite programmer's editor (or is it an IDE?) came about.
Introduced at the Build event in April 2015, the VS Code open-source editor is nearly six years old. Microsoft already had a successful development tool, Visual Studio, and few could have guessed that this new editor would supplant its Windows-only cousin in popularity to the extent that just four years later Eclipse director Mike Milinkovich would express his concern about "a monopoly on development experience."