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		int_19h on Jan 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is the madness ever going to end? At least for VSCode, it's the other way around - the app was first, and even if it was always an Electron app, it was still designed and written for the desktop. It actually took some time and effort to port that to vscode.dev, which wasn't there at the beginning.

meetups323 on Jan 12, 2022 [–]

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