Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (ghuntley.com)

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In this blog post, we explore the ecosystem of open-source forks, revisit the story so far with how Microsoft has been transforming from products to services, go deep into why the Visual Studio Code ecosystem is designed to fracture, and the legal implications of this design then discuss future problems faced by the software development ecosystem if our industry continues as-is on the current path...

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

We really need open source language servers (for me to use in Emacs).

To me it's not a cost problem, it's just too important a tool for me to be unable to fix it when it breaks.

I've spent too much of my life suffering with problems in proprietary software (shout out to windows and visual studio especially) that I can't realistically investigate, let alone fix.

this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023

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