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		johnisgood 77 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No Visual Studio IDE for Linux/macOS I think it is a poor analogy. VS Code and Visual Studio IDE are fundamentally different products. One is a lightweight editor, the other is a full IDE with different architecture and capabilities. Chrome and Chromium are the same product type (browsers) where Chrome is built from Chromium source with proprietary additions[1]. A better analogy would be VS Code vs VSCodium, which actually mirrors Chrome vs Chromium: same codebase, one with Microsoft's proprietary bits removed, or Fedora vs RHEL. [1] Both Google Chrome and Chromium are maintained by Google.

cranberryturkey 74 days ago [–]

I think that's what he was saying. But VSCode is open source though, which he's wrong about. CHrome is not open source.

johnisgood 73 days ago | [–]

Google Chrome is not open source indeed, but Chromium is, which is what Google Chrome comes from.

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