[bobblywobbles]

What are the problems with VSCode? I'm all for making alternatives if they are closed or you need to pay, but I believe Microsoft is doing a good service with all the regular and frequent updates to VSCode.

Correct me if I missed something.

[anton_kosyakov]

VS Code has a clear scope to be smart light-weight editor. It fits to mainstream needs indeed, but not for firms trying to build domain specific IDEs.

Theia does not have problems with VS Code. It embraces great tech and UX behind VS Code and makes it available to build custom products with ability to rebrand UI, get full control of developer experience, and so on.

There is no competition, but rather collaboration. So far Theia adopters were building own products by porting interesting tech from VS Code and contributing bug and feature requests back. Sometimes even by going and proposing fixes for them in VS Code.

[pkaye]

I think they want to allow a non Microsoft branded version they can bundle with their software. So for example if you buy the ARM commercial compilers, this will come as the bundled code editor.

[whatsmyusername]

It's not not-vscode so someone had to make not-vscode vscode.

[throw_away]

Here, I've been using not-eclipse all this time.