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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Sale on Visual Studio from Bleeping Computer
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On 25 May 2024 03:19:09 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> If the various websites can be believed VSCode has become
> the IDE of choice for any language you care to mention.

There is the question of why it had to be built on Electron, instead of 
using Microsoft’s own Dotnet framework--wasn’t that cross-platform enough?

But then, maybe Dotnet is just as bloated as Electron ...