Extracting from cursor team [1]
> VSCode extensions have very limited control over the UI of the editor. Our Command-K and Copilot++ features aren’t possible as extensions. Same for much of what we want to build in the future!
> VSCode extensions have very limited control over the UI of the editor. Our Command-K and Copilot++ features aren’t possible as extensions. Same for much of what we want to build in the future!
I wonder if they could have created a "Super Plugin" interface instead of a Cursor specific fork and try to get it merged to VSCode or VSCodium or at least keep as a new shared platform for deep customisation instead of balkanisation by everyone interested in doing something similar.
VSCodium does not do any development but only build VSCode codebase to be without all Microsoft telemetry and proprietary stuff and use open-vsx marketplace.
> VSCode
I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to think of some reasons why would VSCode team refuse to accept such change.