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Why did VS Code choose Electron? 🤔

The team wanted a lightweight editor with the rich language support and debugging tools developers need, while keeping the same web technologies across platforms.

🍿 Watch The Story of VS Code: youtube.com/watch?v=kHL3Xz…

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