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Defining specifications with the level of detail needed to build applications exactly as intended is not as trivial as it may seem.
Ootb VSCode is already a superior experience to Emacs, which I only begrudgingly move away from because of subpar TypeScript + JSX support like 6 years ago. However, after I started using VSCode for work there was just no going back. I use VSCode a lot for text manipulations. I find its regex search replace much easier than using sed in the terminal. Multiple cursors, Git integration, beautiful diffs, command palette is just like Emacs M-x.
Without its proprietary plugins it's still a great gift to the public and forks like Cursor is a good showcase of that. Thanks to monaco almost every web editor nowaways have great usability, syntax highlighting and the keybindings that I'm familiar with.
I think the bigger joke of the century are open source beneficiaries that only take and give nothing back, but still have the audacity to demand for things and hound open source developers to implement what they want. You can't have your cake and eat it too
Probably they could offload more to their servers but it wouldn’t be the same experience definitely.
For Android and iOS if you forget your PIN code I believe you are screwed, as in no one can decrypt your device for you.
I don't want to sound discouraging, but the thing you need to realize is most of us are here because we like its user interface, not despite it. If you're looking to enhance the site you should improve on its strengths, not change it to something it isn't.
Hacker News loads instantly all the time and I think I speak for most here that we don't want all these extra JS or Next React wizardry.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kxzpy/apple-is-still-trying...
I'm obviously a youngling