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by hedora 2182 days ago
> and most importantly, as a development platform, chrome os din't do well

Microsoft completely lapped the industry on this with VS Code. It has a mode where it runs the editor backend the cloud, and the frontend in a browser.

Edit: I thought I just read it just got to 53% market share. It was at 18% and growing fast in 2018, so it’s plausible they have majority market share now: https://triplebyte.com/blog/editor-report-the-rise-of-visual...
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smabie 2182 days ago
> It has a mode where it runs the editor backend the cloud, and the frontend in a browser.

You mean like X? Which was created in 1984 and at the canonical version (11) in 1987?

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hedora 2182 days ago
Yeah, but (presumably) much more latency tolerant.

I didn’t mean to imply they were the first do build a development environment using a thin client.

I meant they are way ahead on in-browser / on tablet IDE’s, which is surprising, since Google had a 10 year lead on the office suite side of things.

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