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> ...the type of people who use VSCode This type of gatekeeping helps no one. We should be optimizing for lowering barriers to entry, not justifying making an
by Godel_unicode 5y ago
> ...the type of people who use VSCode
This type of gatekeeping helps no one. We should be optimizing for lowering barriers to entry, not justifying making an already hard problem (learning to code) harder.
> ...except in desperate circumstances...
Some 15% of American adults are smartphone only. That percentage rises very quickly once you look outside of the G20. Those are also some of the people most likely to have their lives drastically improved by having access to the ability to code.
The fact that you don't have a usecase for a tool absolutely does not mean that such a usecase does not exist, nor does it make that usecase less valuable.