[jimmaswell]

where's the embrace step? vscode is their own product in the first place.

[solardev]

So was IE, back in the day, when they first "embraced" the web.

Today's "embrace" is of the web dev ecosystem, which before VSCode's dominance consisted of Jetbrains, other IDEs, text editors, etc.

Now with VScode and Github, they control much of the dev ecosystem, shrink competitors' marketshares by making them free to end-users (subsidized by other Microsoft businesses), expand them with new capabilities (even before secret APIs), etc.

[falcor84]

Arguably VS Code was their way of "embracing" what GitHub were doing with Atom.

[sakesun]

VSCode is embracing Eclipse team and Eclipse way of opensource IDE ecosystem.

[TiredOfLife]

No. It's Eclipse that took Microsoft made Monaco editor and built Theia on top of it.

[sakesun]

Microsoft hired ex-Eclipse team to build VSCode.