Microsoft’s new Code editor is built on Google’s Chromium

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Microsoft launched today a shiny new code editor for Windows, OS X, and Linux: Visual Studio Code. It’s a smart looking text editor with IntelliSense support, git integration, and a few other bits and pieces that developers will enjoy.

What Microsoft didn’t say when announcing the new editor was how it built Visual Studio Code. In a move that might seem a little surprising, given the regular animosity between the two companies, the editor is built on top of Chromium, the open source version of Google’s Chrome browser.

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