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by johnfn 402 days ago
The restrictive extension ecosystem was a big part of VSCode's success. You can compare to Atom, which allowed extensions to do whatever they wanted: Atom ended up feeling exceptionally slow and bloated because extensions had full latitude to grind your IDE to a halt.
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Yeah, I don't have a problem with that!

But since there seems to be a need for AI-powered forks of VS Code, it could make sense for them all to build off the same fork, rather than making their own.

Isn’t that what they’re doing by building off of vscode?
Yup, just rebased about a week ago