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		carty76ers on Nov 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Developme... Node.js runs on V8, so if you add the DOM and HTML... you have, essentially a browser.

rubber_duck on Nov 21, 2019 [–]

That doesn't really buy you anything distributed over a native UI + IO framework.

You could use the DOM based text editor (I think the VS code one is called Monaco ?) to build a cloud IDE (I've seen a few instances of this) but VS code has nothing specifically suitable for this over standard IDEs.

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