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The weirdest thing about microsoft is that if they want to, they can deliver good software. VSCode and Github are amazing! And they did WSL!

On the other hand, they also have Teams and Azure Devops (that’s their “enterprise github”).



Github is not really a good example, they basically bought it ‶off-the-shelf″.


> VSCode and Github are amazing!

There is hug momentum behind VSCode so it has large ammount of features. But software for editing text, that eats as much RAM as 3d software with complex model, is probably not amazing.


VSCode and Github are both bought. With WSL you're right.


VSCode was, as far as I know, an entirely in house project.


Vscode was not bought at all.

Monaco itself was not bought.




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