Anil DashIn roughly the past half-decade, Microsoft went from nowhere to overwhelming dominance of text editors with VSCode, ownership of majority of code hosting (and open source dev) with GitHub, ownership of the dependency stack used by most devs with npm, control over the most popular single language with TypeScript, and is trying to position copilot and ChatGPT as inevitable parts of the future dev process. Nothing negative for the ecosystem will come of this, as the last half century teaches us.
Ross Grady@anildash I wish I could contribute any sort of counter-argument, but just yesterday I was looking at the VSCode roadmap and noticing that several of the fundamental security-related items that were supposedly focus areas for 2021(!!), like basically anything to keep the extensions ecosystem from becoming a cesspool of malware/supply chain exploits, haven't even been marked as "in progress."
I *was* amused to note that they have some rudimentary enterprise management options for VSCode -- which are Windows Registry Group Policy based, like it's 2005 or something. Guess the big strategy is to get everyone onto VSCode and then we'll have to . . . switch back to Windows??
Mitch