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.
Dave Lane 
🇳🇿@lightweight @anildash I mean, I’ve also got a MacBook and an iPhone. And a Visa credit card and Amazon Prime. I’d love to live life without any toxic corporate relationships, but it’s easier said than done. I feel like the trick is knowing which mass systems collapses are worth anticipating and preparing for.
LisPi@michael @lightweight @anildash Yeah, this issue is one of the things @pluralistic has written quite a bit about.
In my country, refusing to work with any Microsoft-derived technology in IT will basically remove >70% of jobs, right from the get-go.
We did get some good things out of M$'s laziness though, like the #LSP & #DAP #OpenStandard #protocols, which work just fine in #Emacs (why VSC when you have Emacs?) and have greatly improved its ability to be used for #Java among other languages.
L'appel du ide@lispi314 I fucking love emacs, doomemacs specifically is great for us evil vim users