[aranchelk]

Not to quibble, but VSCode (and GitHub for that matter) are part of my tooling, not part of any of my stacks.

To me the former is tolerable, the latter is not.

[corytheboyd]

I think they are talking about products like Cursor.

[aranchelk]

Ah, that’s a painful situation.

[corytheboyd]

Eh MS wasn’t going to just let VSCode derivatives soak up all the AI gold rush money, these companies knew the risks. I wonder what it’s going to mean for projects like Zig, a migration of VSCode refugees could crank things up to 11 pretty quick.

[hansvm]

How do VSCode refugees impact a project like Zig?

[cstrahan]

I would bet they meant the editor “Zed”.

[corytheboyd]

Shoot yeah I did haha

[degurechaff]

Zed don't have many extensions like VSCode.

[corytheboyd]

I guess the point is that VSCode won because it collected critical mass (despite people practically chanting Microsoft’s “embrace, extend, extinguish” game plan). If a sort of exodus were to happen, perhaps that same critical mass would stoke the flames of mass plugin catch-up.

I have no skin in the game, I’m just a guy in the internet back alley throwing down a couple bucks on a dice game.

[lakomen]

I've been shafted by Github under MS ownership in the past, after 7 years. I'm using a gitea instance ever since. The only thing Github is good for is visibility/discoverability. Do not trust Microsoft ever. They will fuck you.

[sitkack]

At this point, GH is like Twitter, people are begrudgingly using it because it has the most visibility.