This might have been excused if they didn't also forbid tabs unless you use a hack (https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Whitespace-FAQ#tabs-vs-...), was interested in learning until I found this out

what's wrong with setting tabs to 4 spaces?

Not sure what you mean, Nim doesn’t allow tabs so that wouldn’t work

Yes, but I think they are emphasising that only a promise will be returned. Any further type information is not given

The code is also compiled to native code, but it's written declaratively. It's not for everyone, but it's not the same as Electron. Even still you have the option to use the traditional imperative API.

Typescript is great at catching bugs which would trickle down to the end user

They are using the Monaco editor component of VSCode, not forking it

(Sourcegraph dev here) Just to be clear, the Sourcegraph Editor is built on top of Visual Studio Code, not just Monaco. Although we did use just Monaco on the website (not editor) in the past. :)

UI themes, and a much more cohesive default theme

Which theme? vscode has hundreds of themes, and most of them ported from sublime text or other editors. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&ca...

This is the best theme on VS Code I've found so far. Lovely. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=azemoh.t...

This is the default Atom theme.

VS Code has full UI theming now. I've personally never used a default theme on any editor.

Atom: the bloat of an IDE with the features of a text editor. At least there are plugins :/

They try, but there is not really predictable and simple way to select those fonts in CSS. I've had times when Courier was used on Linux because the MS fonts we installed.

I would prefer they just do font-family: monospace

Admiring the optimism but having an untested reimplementation of node would make people a lot less confident in using the project

Doesn't headless mode just mean rendering to a bitmap instead of a window?

No, but it's usually used to take screenshots and stuff like that.

It means rendering without the UI from what I understand.