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I didn’t say I liked the VSCode model - I simply don’t care, and want the extensions to work.

Panic wants to sell a product that doesn’t have modern legs - a text editor simply isn’t too remarkable in 2020, although Panic sets a high experience bar. The extensions matter and the product is less without them. I think it’s totally fair to criticize.

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That’s fair. I suppose the fact that Nova is proprietary, pay-to-use software that only runs on macOS gives that criticism more merit. And sure, a text editor on its own isn’t all that groundbreaking. I guess my point is that I hope developers don’t settle on VS Code as the be all end all of editors / IDEs. Development tools, as a class of software, are incredibly important and there’s still plenty of innovation to be had in this space.

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