--- title: The same team that built Eclipse built VS Code. Erich... description: A conversational anecdote traces the lineage of Visual Studio Code back to the team that built Eclipse. Erich Gamma, known for his work on design patterns... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-same-team-that-built-eclipse-built-vs-code-erich-gamma-left-zurich-for-microsoft-and-monaco-gr-mm1bauyw8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The same team that built Eclipse built VS Code. Erich Gamma left Zurich for Microsoft, and Monaco gr | daily.dev og:description: A conversational anecdote traces the lineage of Visual Studio Code back to the team that built Eclipse. Erich Gamma, known for his work on design patterns... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-same-team-that-built-eclipse-built-vs-code-erich-gamma-left-zurich-for-microsoft-and-monaco-gr-mm1bauyw8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mm1baUyW8.png og:image:alt: The same team that built Eclipse built VS Code. Erich Gamma left Zurich for Microsoft, and Monaco gr og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The same team that built Eclipse built VS Code. Erich Gamma left Zurich for Microsoft, and Monaco gr **[Coffee \+ Software](https://daily.dev/sources/coffee-software)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A conversational anecdote traces the lineage of Visual Studio Code back to the team that built Eclipse. Erich Gamma, known for his work on design patterns (Gang of Four) and JUnit, led the Zurich-based Eclipse team focused on the Java developer experience. He later moved to Microsoft with several colleagues, where they built an HTML-based editor that eventually evolved into VS Code, making it essentially the same team's third or fourth attempt at building a top-tier IDE. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Did the same team that built Eclipse also build VS Code? Yes, a significant part of the team that built VS Code originally worked on Eclipse. Erich Gamma, known for design patterns and JUnit, led a Zurich-based Eclipse team focused on the Java developer experience. He later moved to Microsoft with some colleagues and built an HTML-based editor that grew into Visual Studio Code. _Developers curious about the people behind their favorite tools can follow these origin stories on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Eclsipse Foundation offers enterprise-grade open source alternative to Microsoft’s VS Code Marketplace](https://daily.dev/posts/eclsipse-foundation-offers-enterprise-grade-open-source-alternative-to-microsoft-s-vs-code-marketpla-xppsb01st) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [VS Code is no longer the default for me – here is the tool that finally broke the habit](https://daily.dev/posts/vs-code-is-no-longer-the-default-for-me-here-is-the-tool-that-finally-broke-the-habit-i0zxbligz) · XDA Developers · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [A History of IDEs at Google](https://daily.dev/posts/a-history-of-ides-at-google-wby5ceelj) · Hacker News · 6 upvotes · 0 comments - [Google joins the Eclipse Foundation as a strategic member to accelerate AI-integrated developer tools](https://daily.dev/posts/google-joins-the-eclipse-foundation-as-a-strategic-member-to-accelerate-ai-integrated-developer-tool-iaql1riqw) · Google Open Source Blog · 8 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft), [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#vscode](https://daily.dev/tags/vscode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-same-team-that-built-eclipse-built-vs-code-erich-gamma-left-zurich-for-microsoft-and-monaco-gr-mm1bauyw8) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The same team that built Eclipse built VS Code. 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