[Info-vax] BASIC (and Horizon)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/2/2024 7:38 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 2/1/2024 11:48 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 22:11:20 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> It is correct that MS never rewrote MSO from C++ to C#.
>>> They did port VS to C# though.
>>
>> Maybe, but VS Code takes an entirely different tack, using Electron (the
>> Chromium engine + TypeScript/JavaScript) instead. Wonder why?
> 
> VSC was intended to compete with Atom on Windows/Linux/macOS. VSC
> was released before .NET Core. So MS did not have much of a choice.

Correction: they had lots of choices, but C# was just not one of them.

Arne