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VS Code is not based on Atom - it's built on Electron, the app framework Atom is also built on, and uses some of the same Node packages Atom developed.

• bad_user 11y ago
  Electron was extracted from Atom and was originally named Atom Shell. I don't see your point.
  • wisew 11y ago
    Electron was also not extracted from Atom - it was always extracted as atom-shell. It was just rebranded as Electron. Atom ≠ atom-shell.
    • bad_user 11y ago
      Maybe we aren't speaking the same language. Here's what it says on electron.atom.io: "Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor" So what are we talking about?
      • rplnt 11y ago
        "for" does not equal "as part of".