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This is the kind of decision a company makes when they are panicking about getting left behind by the latest thing. A somewhat similar example would have been
by api 3y ago
This is the kind of decision a company makes when they are panicking about getting left behind by the latest thing.
A somewhat similar example would have been Microsoft way back in the 90s and 2000s bundling their own browser and then almost forcing you to use it. “We have to own this!”
- gosub100 3y agoI see it more as forcing its use so nobody can say they failed. Suppose you pay millions in AI developers and time training the model, only for it to be ignored by most users. Having no off-switch (like me when I start drinking) allows them to point to how many "active users" they have and what great feats it's enabled developers to accomplish.
- Wytwwww 3y agoIt's so bizarre to me what they have been doing lately. This and that horrible new UI designed entirely for 13" screens or tablets which just turns their IDE into VS Code. They are trying to compete with a free product by trying to imitate (but still charging $500+ per year..)
- api 3y agoIt’s not really possible to compete with huge companies like Microsoft “dumping” free code on the market: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) You can be better, more user focused, have better privacy, but it’s tough to beat good enough and free. Microsoft wants to own the developer ecosystem and is willing to dump billions in free software and services to annihilate any third party shops. They are pretty close to owning the entire stack of core services and tooling other than the languages themselves. The sad thing is that in their push to keep up Jetbrains is dropping a major thing that made them appealing vs VSCode: a lack of spying and telemetry.