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Anything the requires me to use a different IDE is a non-starter for me.

I can imagine it is a lot easier to develop these things as a custom version of VSCode instead of plugins/extensions for a handful of the popular existing IDEs, but is that really a good long term plan? Is the future going to be littered with a bunch of one-off custom IDEs? Does anyone want that future?

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>Anything the requires me to use a different IDE is a non-starter for me.

Windsurf is, ultimately, just an IDE extension. They shipped a forked VSCode with their branding for... some reason. But the extension is available in practically every IDE/editor.

The reason for forking is the restrictions of the vscode API, so no, the extensions and the fork are not the same.

The extension seems to provide the exact same functionality, so I'm not sure what's really needed there. In fact, I have had better results with the Jetbrains and Sublime extensions than the Windsurf editor.

Yeah, using VSCode is a different IDE

Why do you assume everybody uses that?

If the product can't be used with the infinitely hackable emacs or vim, that's a shortcoming of the product.

In the end that’s just a business decision: how much revenue can you expect from emacs/vim users versus users that prefer it integrated in an easily installable ide? I would choose to ignore the vim users expecting more revenue from a standalone IDE. You can’t cater for everyone.

It has plugins for jetbrains, vim, emacs, sublime

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