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.
Michael Engard@anildash It’s so frustrating, because I genuinely love a whole bunch of those tools—I practically live in VS Code—but I can’t ignore the little voice in my head that knows they’ll all betray me sooner or later.
Henrik Schönemann@michael @anildash Speaking of VS Code: The peculiar state is that a) the code is under MIT-license but b) the product is proprietary Microsoft with telemetry etc.
A super useful alternative I found:
https://vscodium.com/
"Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code" - easy to install and (for me) practically indistinguishable from the 'real' VS Code
@lavaeolus @anildash I’ll definitely take a peek at this—thanks to you and others who’ve recommended it!