[hungryhobbit]

I won't say "you can take my VS Code from cold dead hands" or anything, but it is a very good tool, and Microsoft hasn't yet fucked it up the way they have so many other things.

I guess I'd say "you take my VS Code ... willingly ... but only after M$ fucks it up and makes me not want it anymore (like they've done to everything else they acquired)".

[overfeed]

> Microsoft hasn't yet fucked it up the way they have so many other things.

Not for lack of trying, the amount of CoPilot cruft bundled with the core IDE is growing quarterly.

[dd8601fn]

Seriously. I think I saw they just added another “please use the agent chats here!” button.

Every updates release notes is like 90% “now with more copilot plz use it.”

[21asdffdsa12]

Sir Copealot a noble knight whose services remained unwanted.

[shideneyu]

they pushed copilot too far.

[21asdffdsa12]

Makes me wish, we could just have some "Metric" sin-goat, that is basically some nonsense fork of the project, that the process can ruin for "promotion" crystals or whatever, while the actual project runs unaffected on in the background.

[loloquwowndueo]

Vs code is a weapon, designed to fracture. It being “good” is a weapon as well. https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

[kristiandupont]

That seems like a very, very long-winded way of accusing them of "embrace, extend, extinguish"? Which is obviously not falsifiable, but just feels a bit trite at this point, IMO.

[coldtea]

>Which is obviously not falsifiable

Doesn't have to be. It's been empiracally proven the case for MS time and again. How many times do you need it to happen because you treat it as the default?

[aa-jv]

Its trite until you have to explain to your boss why your editor brought down the business.

[philipallstar]

Things feeling trite isn't a counterargument, though.

[aa-jv]

>Microsoft hasn't yet fucked it up

I beg to differ. Have you inspected its network traffic?

[shideneyu]

can you develop ?

[aa-jv]

Can I develop without using tools that snoop on my private system and exfiltrate data while I'm trying to develop?

Yes, very definitely.

Can you?

[iririririr]

Did you try intellij ever?

And are you a vscode original? or came from vim/emacs?