[epolanski]

I don't necessarily see anything particularly malicious to be honest.

Before you introduce public APIs you need a use case and someone to spearhead them and copilot is doing that.

As for Microsoft not allowing installs of stuff like live share on other forks I guess it is because they are seen as different products and not part of the vsc codebase itself.

I would understand if extension authors would complain about not being able to access the same apis (might be the case) but at the end of the day they can still fork and do whatever they prefer.

Lots of companies out there thrive on forking vsc, from gitpod, stackblitz, cursor and many others. But they can't possibly expect to have all proprietary plugins too.

What other code editor has ever been so impactful and open in the last decades?