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I mean all good but I still wonder if building an editor is really sustainable you basically only fight for new coders everybody else will just stay with vs or

by jwpapi 1y ago

I mean all good but I still wonder if building an editor is really sustainable you basically only fight for new coders everybody else will just stay with vs or IntelliJ because of muscle memory I know you can share keymaps but it never works 100% Like I must’ve been tremendously more disappointed with my current ide to even consider switching

pzmarzly 1y ago
Counterexample: I went Sublime Text 2 -> ST3 -> Atom -> VSCode -> Zed, and every time barely noticed a difference in editing experience. The keymaps were >95% compatible after each of these switches. But I guess that was the happy path given these editors share lineage. OTOH I was never able to switch to Jetbrains IDEs for long, because everything was too different, even after installing compat keymaps.