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> Sounds like you’ve maybe never actually run a service or API library at scale. What was the saying? When your scale is big enough, even your bugs have users.
by irjustin 9mo ago
> Sounds like you’ve maybe never actually run a service or API library at scale.
What was the saying? When your scale is big enough, even your bugs have users.
- raincole 9mo agoYeah, but when you are big enough you can afford to not care individual users. VScode once broke a very popular extension that used a private API. Microsoft (righteously) didn't bother to ask if the private API had users.
- whatevaa 9mo agoVScode is free, so not really money on the line. Easy decision. Things get complicated when money gets involved.
- vlovich123 9mo agoIf you think that just because VSCode is free there's no money on the line, you're not thinking about things the way others do. As I said, reputation alone definitely has a cost and Microsoft has partnerships where VSCode is strategic. They probably just made a calculation that there's not enough users and/or the users using that private API were strategically misaligned with their direction.