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How is this announcement snarky? Also this seems like something they could easily open-source down the road.

• oaiey 5y ago
  Well the core is surely open source as part of regular vscode. And the hosting magic other groups are doing on their own (gitpod.io ...right?). I think assuming VS Code means open source is not right. The core of VS Code is open source but most fancy things (remote/ssh/docker usage, browser usage, code spaces like behavior, etc) are regular Microsoft products. Microsoft VS Code team still competes with itself (VisualStudio), the traditional competition (JetBrains, Eclipse) and third VS Code derivates (gitpod.io etc). We cannot assume that they give us the greatest and latest for free when they would cut themselves with that.
  • ghuntley 5y ago
    Recommend reading https://gitpod.io/blog/cloud-ide-history https://gitpod.io/blog/cloud-ide-history
  • benatkin 5y ago
    > I think assuming VS Code means open source is not right. When VS Code came out, Atom, which is open source, was popular, and VS Code was thought of as an alternative. So it definitely was part of VS Code's brand.
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