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.

For now.About the App Tell us a little bit about your application: what does it do and when did you start working on it? Now the only annoying bit is that I have to pick out that one running task from the list of running tasks when restarting, but I can live with that. I’ve set it to Ctrl+Alt+r.įinally, the flow is Ctrl+Shift+b to start the taks for the very first time, code-code-code, Ctrl+Alt+r to re-build. d20 Preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts (or just hit Ctrl+k Ctrl+s), search for “Restart running task” keybinding, and set it to whatever you like.

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