

Why did you choose those particular technologies? One major advantage of using standard web APIs for VS Code is that we can provide VS Code as an online component for GitHub Codespaces with almost the identical code base. I feel that going with the standard web APIs gives us the most stable API to work with and does not lock us into a particular, possibly opinionated, tech stack that we constantly have to maintain. We do not, and never did, use any web framework, such as React or Vue.js. Electron is built on top of Chromium and Node.js, which enables us to use standard web APIs. By using Electron as an application framework we can ship VS Code to macOS, Linux and Windows, including support for ARM-based chips. There is a bit of native code involved too for some of our Node.js modules that we maintain. VS Code was originally written with a mix of JavaScript and TypeScript but we quickly adopted TypeScript for all of our code and immediately got attached to its improved tool support like static type checking and refactoring.

Technologies Being Used What technologies are you using to develop it? By then the project was ongoing for around 2 months. I started working on it in October 2011 when I joined Microsoft. Visual Studio Code is a cross platform code editor written in TypeScript based on Code OSS with support for extensions and a wide range of programming languages. To run VS Codium flatpak run the App Tell us a little bit about your application: what does it do and when did you start working on it? To install VS Codium via flatpak, use the following command: flatpak install flathub To install codium via snap, using the following commands: sudo snap install codium -classic VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing To install VS Code via flatpak, use the following command: flatpak install flathub To install VS Code via snap, using the following commands: sudo snap install code -classic You need to install snap by running: sudo apt install snapd Sudo apt-get install code # or code-insiders Then update the package cache and install the package using: Sudo sh -c 'echo "deb stable main" > /etc/apt//vscode.list' Sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 microsoft.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/microsoft-archive-keyring.gpg The repository and key can also be installed manually with the following script:
