> VSCode is an IDE designed to suffocate the open source alternatives, so that they retain full strategic control
What open source alternatives? Atom was a mess that kept breaking. LSP plugins are now used in almost every featureful editor and have really made editing a lot better. You spent more time configuring Vim and Emacs than they saved you. Microsoft made a really good code editor that set a standard and likely took market share from their own (mostly Windows) Visual Studio.
I do not use it anymore because of the creep of closed source plugins (+ they keep breaking my workflow) but I still think it is a great improvement.
> I wish software was secure by design, like browsers are.
Someone does not remember (or was not around) for the ActiveX or Flash days.
What open source alternatives? Atom was a mess that kept breaking. LSP plugins are now used in almost every featureful editor and have really made editing a lot better. You spent more time configuring Vim and Emacs than they saved you. Microsoft made a really good code editor that set a standard and likely took market share from their own (mostly Windows) Visual Studio.
I do not use it anymore because of the creep of closed source plugins (+ they keep breaking my workflow) but I still think it is a great improvement.
> I wish software was secure by design, like browsers are.
Someone does not remember (or was not around) for the ActiveX or Flash days.