It's just a funnel. As a strategy, you 'commodify' the resources that you cannot control, especially those that are profitable to your opponents. MS is losing i

It's just a funnel. As a strategy, you 'commodify' the resources that you cannot control, especially those that are profitable to your opponents. MS is losing in languages, they don't own the important languages for mobile phones: java, kotlin, swift and objectivec and they have a hard time on the server against go and all the other contenders. With some luck the web remains open and typescript will remain an important language since javascript will keep on being important. The moat for the editor is the plugin shop. We will be able to see how committed they are to being open. At least for now, their Live Share plugin doesn't seem to be available for other editors [1]. It's nice to have easy access to debugging but how do you sell your editor if you don't have all the other productivity features? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23244434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23244434