alt Hacker NewsVSCode? Even if some peeps don't like it out of principle because it's an Electron app, it's undeniable that it is extremely popular (...and is actually a lot more lightweight and snappier than 'real' IDEs like VStudio or Xcode, or the various Java-based IDEs).
Also indirectly: DirectX saved Linux gaming ;)
> Also indirectly: DirectX saved Linux gaming ;)
Nah, if windows stayed with OpenGL instead of inventing its own, gaming on linux would be far easier for decades.
But it is a bit funny that win32 api turned out to be most stable way to make apps running on linux