[preommr]

I really hope the editor wars don't start again. I've been happily using VsCode for years now. More than happy in fact, it's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used, as evidenced by how AI companies basically started as a VsCode fork.

But this is going full-throttle on enshittification.

WTF happened at microsoft (github, openai partnership, copilot pricing) that all this shit just ramped up to a 11?

[glitchc]

The editor wars never ended, and VSCode has been user hostile since inception. It came with unavoidable telemetry right out the gate.

[RandyOrion]

Yeah, this is part of the reason why vscodium exists.

[opan]

vim and emacs are both still great choices.

[marshray]

I've been using *nix and usenet since the early 1990's.

I always thought "editor wars" was a particularly dumb in-joke among a small group and I feel sad when I see people who think it was ever more than that.

The Wikipedia page cites "The Jargon File" as an authoritative source of truth. Ridiculous.

[majormajor]

> WTF happened at microsoft (github, openai partnership, copilot pricing) that all this shit just ramped up to a 11?

"Make a great free product so that we can enshittify it later" is an infamous MS playbook. Maybe nothing happened, maybe just the usual MS at work.