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fork vscode, do whatever you want. merge back when ready.

• ghuntley 2y ago
  Won't really help ya. As outlined at https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ as soon as you compile "VSCode" (MIT) the ecosystem fractures in a bad way (tm) including no-license to run majority of MSFT extensions (Language LSPs, Copilot, Remote Development). If you are a vendor producing a MIT fork then one needs to iterate the graph and convince 3rd party extension authors to _not use the MSFT extensions_ as dependencies _and_ to publish on open-vsx. This is how Cursor gets wrecked in the medium/long term. Coding agent? Cool. You can't use Pylance with it etc. VSCode degrades to being notepad.exe. MSFT uses Cursor for product research and then rolls out the learnings into Copilot because only Copilot supports all of "Visual Studio Code" features that users expect (and this is by design)
  • kburman 2y ago
    If MS didn't owned VS code. What would they be doing?
    • DidYaWipe 2y ago
      Further enshittifying Windows and Office. I'd say this task must have run its course by now, but Microsoft always seems to find a way to make products worse.
    • timcobb 2y ago
      Building VS Code :)