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VScode’s killer feature is its remote development capability. Its prevalence could had been averted if Linux folks were not that stuck in command prompt editor
by whatever1 4y ago
VScode’s killer feature is its remote development capability.
Its prevalence could had been averted if Linux folks were not that stuck in command prompt editors for ssh work, and lecturing beginners about their incompetence to learn the keyboard commands of vi.
At some point there was some work in forwarding UI via X11, but it was very clunky and slow. The Remote Desktop capabilities of Linux are also atrocious for rendering text.
So here we are, Microsoft covered the gaps that the community underplayed for decades, and now is dominating.
- xigoi 4y agohttps://github.com/jbyuki/instant.nvim https://github.com/jbyuki/instant.nvim
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4y agoTotally agree with this sentiment. Everything else about the VSCode experience more or less exists elsewhere. The turn key (and improving) remote experience is incredible. That the infrastructure also works with the development containers concept is brilliant.
- yencabulator 4y agoAnd VSCode's remote plugin is proprietary, and FOSS is explicitly forbidden from using it. So we're back at "they pretend to care for OSS" and "Microsoft is in the embrace phase".