I’ve just checked Visual Studio Code on Windows and Mac. Great application with great responsive UI. On Windows, UI is made with Chromium (chromiumcontent.dll). I will check on Mac too.
One can wonder why Chromium is used instead of Spartan’s EdgeHtml. We can suppose it’s a matter of time but we can also argue that Chromium is cross platform, permitting code simplification. This leads us to the following question: can EdgeHtml be a viable alternative if not available at least on Mac Osx and Linux? And if EdgeHtml escapes from Windows to reach other platforms, it could be a excellent UI library candidate for .Net Core, perhaps better than a Xaml port.
When Microsoft uses HtmlEdge for the name of it’s next html renderer, I immediately hope to see a link with the excellent Edge.js: a good CLR implementation, a good html renderer and a good binding between .Net and javascript available on Windows, Mac and Linux. A dream…