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by wing-_-nuts 797 days ago
>I think performance is really the best differentiator.

I don't understand this at all. Most open source projects start out equally as a means to give back to and collaborate with the community as well as showcase one's skills. You're asking me to purposefully publish badly optimized software? I don't have it in me. That offends my sensibilities of craftsmanship. A 'slow' open source project will never get traction. Even if it did, I also don't know how an open source project wouldn't immediately have it's obvious performance bottlenecks fixed.

Far better to go the VSCode route. Release a useful project, then release paid extensions for it.