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Does anyone here have a take on why so many people are forking VSCode instead of writing a plugin? Is AI codegen the kind of thing that would be impoasible with
by benrutter 11mo ago
Does anyone here have a take on why so many people are forking VSCode instead of writing a plugin? Is AI codegen the kind of thing that would be impoasible with a plugin or something?
- urbandw311er 11mo agoYes, it’s to avoid getting bitten by any arbitrary (and potentially self-serving) limits Microsoft chooses to put on the plugin interface.
- 0x00cl 11mo agoMy best guess would be that plugins are limited into what they can do within VSCode, and rewriting a whole IDE/Text editor just for AI Agent seems a lot of work. For example a while back vscode-pets[1] plugin became popular and tried it and noticed that the pet can only live within a window, whether its the explorer section or in its own panel, I thought it'd be more of a desktop pet that could be anywhere within VSCode but apparently there are limitations (https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets/issues/4 https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets/issues/4). So my guess is that forking VSCode and customizing it that way is much easier to do things that you can't with a plugin while also not having to maintain an IDE/Text editor. [1] https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets