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No, it doesn’t, it implies that it uses a language which is widespread and most everyone knows. Languages themselves being superior tends to be an opinion.
by edgyquant 5y ago
No, it doesn’t, it implies that it uses a language which is widespread and most everyone knows. Languages themselves being superior tends to be an opinion.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago> "Most everyone knows". Pardon my age or something. but if you're a software developer who doesn't work on web-dev, you probably do not know JS, certainly not enough to code much in it. Maybe "most everyone" leaves enough room to describe all the people who do embedded and native development - I don't know the actual numbers. But the sentence didn't say: "VSCode is winning because its extension language widespread and most everyone knows it". It said "modern languages". Haskell is a modern language. Rust is a modern language. Lua is a modern language. If VSCode (somehow) used them as its extension language, would it still be winning? Clearly, no.
- xrd 5y agoI should have said "modern and more popular languages." For the record, I like elisp/lisp, I just don't use them at my day job and have a hard time customizing emacs with them. Emacs is still my favorite editor, but for my day job, I can get much more done in VSCode because it "embraces" (whatever that means) JS much better than Emacs. I wish it wasn't so, and I'm worried about it long term.