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Or maybe it's a good product? Occam's Razor and all that.

whyileft 10y ago
This is the only product on HN I've ever seen where "This is great!" is all over the place and never downvoted. Almost every single product on HN that makes it to the front page is full of flamewars and grumps. I should post the sentiment scores. Its a serious outlier.
- komali2 10y ago
  The sentiment scores are somewhat pointless, I feel. If you're concerned about astroturfing, all post history on this site is public. You can click a user's username to browse their comments. Bots are pretty obvious, I do this on reddit quite often.
- Analemma_ 10y ago
  Atom and Dolphin also get near-unanimous praise when they come up. It's not exclusive to VSC.
  - freyir 10y ago
    With Atom, there were usually many gripes about sluggishness. Maybe that's improved with recent updates.
    - coldtea 10y ago
      Atom is also actually sluggish, so the gripes make sense. VSC isn't.
- abraae 10y ago
  We all love a redemption story. Over the decades I've gone through a personal journey of discovery, astonishment, deep affection, surprise, disappointment and downright hatred with respect to Microsoft, now transitioning to wary hopefulness. We all want competition in the marketplace, so I like to see them visibly earning their way back into developer affections and leaving their dickish ways behind them.
- coldtea 10y ago
  >This is the only product on HN I've ever seen where "This is great!" is all over the place and never downvoted. Then you probably weren't on HN for long, because all kinds of upcoming products used to have a similar treatment (Rails/Ruby at some point, then Golang, then Mongo, then Nodejs, nowadays Rust, etc.). But unlike a language, which might have people for or against it with strong opinions, who would downvote a new code editor that's not part of a religious war (like vi/emacs) and that does things mostly right? >I should post the sentiment scores How about you stop doing sentiment analysis, instead? It's a crappy "data mining" where you can find everything you want to find, and next to useless for any actual insight.

This is the only product on HN I've ever seen where "This is great!" is all over the place and never downvoted. Almost every single product on HN that makes it to the front page is full of flamewars and grumps. I should post the sentiment scores. Its a serious outlier.

komali2 10y ago
The sentiment scores are somewhat pointless, I feel. If you're concerned about astroturfing, all post history on this site is public. You can click a user's username to browse their comments. Bots are pretty obvious, I do this on reddit quite often.
Analemma_ 10y ago
Atom and Dolphin also get near-unanimous praise when they come up. It's not exclusive to VSC.
- freyir 10y ago
  With Atom, there were usually many gripes about sluggishness. Maybe that's improved with recent updates.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    Atom is also actually sluggish, so the gripes make sense. VSC isn't.
abraae 10y ago
We all love a redemption story. Over the decades I've gone through a personal journey of discovery, astonishment, deep affection, surprise, disappointment and downright hatred with respect to Microsoft, now transitioning to wary hopefulness. We all want competition in the marketplace, so I like to see them visibly earning their way back into developer affections and leaving their dickish ways behind them.
coldtea 10y ago
>This is the only product on HN I've ever seen where "This is great!" is all over the place and never downvoted. Then you probably weren't on HN for long, because all kinds of upcoming products used to have a similar treatment (Rails/Ruby at some point, then Golang, then Mongo, then Nodejs, nowadays Rust, etc.). But unlike a language, which might have people for or against it with strong opinions, who would downvote a new code editor that's not part of a religious war (like vi/emacs) and that does things mostly right? >I should post the sentiment scores How about you stop doing sentiment analysis, instead? It's a crappy "data mining" where you can find everything you want to find, and next to useless for any actual insight.