[HenriNext]

- Forking VSCode is very easy; you can do it in 1 hour.

- Anthropic doesn't use the inputs for training.

- Cursor doesn't have $900M ARR. That was the raise. Their ARR is ~$500m [1].

- Claude Code already support the niceties, including "add selection to chat", accessing IDE's realtime warnings and errors (built-in tool 'ideDiagnostics'), and using IDE's native diff viewer for reviewing the edits.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/cursors-anysphere-nabs-9-9...

[edoceo]

The cost of the fork isn't creating it, it's maintaining it. But maybe AI could help :/

[whatevaa]

The cost of vscode fork is that microsoft has restricted extension marketplace for forks. You have to maintain separate one, that is the real dealbreaker

[notpushkin]

https://open-vsx.org/

[blackoil]

Eclipse maintains a public repo.

[jahewson]

Forking Linux is very easy; you can do it in 1 hour.