Electron was indeed originally called Atom Shell, and part of Atom. But it&#x27;s a general purpose shell for cross-platform apps - it basically provides a native application shell hosting Chromium. And lots of apps - including many that aren&#x27;t developer tools - are built on it. While VS Code uses Electron, and we contribute to it, we&#x27;ve made a lot of design choices differently from Atom in building the editor and rest of the product.