[amszmidt]

I know that this is becoming a trope, but Smalltalk and Lisp Machines did all those things far before 1995. Similarly, GNU Emacs today is capable of all of the above and has been managing for multiple decades at this point in a more modern take of the world...

Remote editing back in the 1980s was such a common thing on the Smalltalk and Lisp Machines that all system code was on another machine, more times than not you wouldn't even notice that it was a remote file!

One could do "emoji" just fine as well, and files would have WYSIWYG like look to them using "fat strings" -- that is 1980s technology. There is a dungeon crawler map using that feature to render the map as graphics, it is how you would implement chess pieces, or other "picture" like stuff.

Auto-complete was already standard, similar look up of "who calls" / "who uses" functionality to figure out where things are used, online documentation, etc etc etc...

So all this was perfectly possible, and already used and abused in 1995 -- VSCode isn't doing anything new in that regard.

[xcdzvyn]

> Smalltalk and Lisp machines

Lest we mention Plan 9!

[pjmlp]

And Inferno as well.