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It's frustrating but completely understandable that the author chose to do this in VScode. The value of having a highly-customizable editor that is extensible i
by _huayra_ 6y ago
It's frustrating but completely understandable that the author chose to do this in VScode. The value of having a highly-customizable editor that is extensible in a well-known language is great.
I really hope a true VSCode competitor will emerge in the future that is truly open source and not controlled by a company that does not have its users best interests in mind; all this Linux-friendly stuff Microsoft is doing lately is to basically get people into their ecosystem and then slowly push out Linux and other alternatives (e.g. who's using sublime / atom anymore?). There is some pithy name for this strategy that escapes me, but effectively it is the equivalent of dumping in commerce: use one's cash reserves to sell a product at a loss in order to squeeze out competitors, then capitalize on the cornered market (i.e. "All Hail Microsoft!" after trying to squeeze out others).
I really wish the Xi [0] editor gained more traction, though as an Emacs user I'm hoping the speedup with v28 and the GccEmacs [1] go a long way there. I would certainly like more parallelism though, e.g. `dired` mode not pausing the entire editor when moving a large file, and I've never really become fluent in elisp.
[0] https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor
[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GccEmacs https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GccEmacs
- joubert 6y ago“Embrace, extend, and extinguish”
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoHe was being sarcastic.
- TomasEkeli 6y agosarcasm works so well in written communication, particularly online with strangers
- PeterStuer 6y agoWould the MIT license on vscode not protect you from the scenario you entertain? Don't get me wrong. VS Code is most certainly a loss leader for the Microsoft ecosystem. This businessmodel for gaining developer mindshare is not new. It was pioneered by the free software ecosystem, but has been the defacto standard for some time now.
- roblabla 6y agoOnly if people are willing to pick up the maintenance when Microsoft stops working in the open. Now TBF, there are a lot of forks and quasi-forks (VSCodium, Eclipse Theia) that there's hope that there are orgs and people outside microsoft that do know vscode well enough to pick up maintenance if it came to that.
- slightwinder 6y ago> not controlled by a company that does not have its users best interests in mind The reason VS Code is so successful is exactly because it's under control of a company which has it's users best interests in mind. It's just that the users interest are not identical with some users political interest. A users best interest is that the tool works without pain and solves the task at hand fast. Anything else comes afterwards. And VS Code is seems to be very dedicated to make exactly this possible. They don't compromise with pointless stuff, and focus on satisfying the most customers. And this works very well so far. Better than any open source-project I've seen to be honest.
- tug0fwar 6y agoMaybe you should give VSCodium[1] a try? [1] https://github.com/VSCodium/ https://github.com/VSCodium/
- kevinslin 6y agoDendron is also available on VSCodium :) https://dendron.so/notes/9134f160-31a6-4ab0-a640-1fce466f9526.html https://dendron.so/notes/9134f160-31a6-4ab0-a640-1fce466f952...
- _huayra_ 6y agoOh nice I didn't know about this. Glad that it's possible to build vscode(ium) without receiving some proprietary blob from the snap store.
- chrisweekly 6y agoYou make some good points, but it's worth pointing out that Sublime isn't OSS, whereas VSC is.
- qmmmur 6y agoWell, Dendron itself is now supporting the language server protocol. So in reality you will be able to take your Dendron knowledge wherever that is supported imminently.