What would all these companies do without Microsoft shipping VS Code as open source, probably still stuck with vi and Emacs.
Still curious which ones will survive when the AI gold diggers finally settle.
Still curious which ones will survive when the AI gold diggers finally settle.
If MS ever decided to discontinue VS Code or relicense it, there would be blood in the water. I guarantee you there would be multiple compelling competitors in under a year and probably a new open source winner with consolidation in 5.
So to answer your question: they would be forking Atom (which I think would’ve won otherwise).
Not saying there aren't people who care, there are, but they are a small minority.
Atom was far slower than VS Code, despite both of them being built on Electron. I wouldn't have used Atom, but I use VS Code.
It is entirely possible that some other closed-source editor with a superior package/extension system would have won, or the "war" would have been postponed until Rust was ready enough for Zed to come along.
I haven't used it in a decade, Im sure it has has evolved
Can’t say I miss eclipse, but a lot of the VSCode extensions seems to utilize old legacy eclipse stuff and has the bugs to match.
If not you really should. IntelliJ with Java is one of the best dev experiences I've ever had. I'm a VSCode fan for most other things but for Java I wouldn't even remotely consider using it over IntelliJ if I had the option :-)
It is not old.
Likewise Oracle VSCode version runs Netbeans headless.
Nowadays I'm basically a Neovim purist, but I have positive memories of it. I'm kind of afraid to revisit it at this point, though, since everyone hates on it and I suspect I wouldn't like it as much.
IMO sounds like natural foundation for Cursor