[blindluck]

Why are so many coding assistant forks? Is it fashion or is there a technical reason? Imagine Python support being a fork. Or live server.

[dsmurrell]

Because it's hard to reimplement VSCode from scratch?

[blindluck]

VSCode has plugins

[andypants]

They are making changes that cannot be done or are very difficult with vscode extensions

[blindluck]

What might they be? API calls, read all files, write to files, side bar, UI interactions in editor. These are things I would imagine an extension can do. Continue.dev is an example.