Is it good technically though? Or is it just really popular because it’s so well maintained and extensible?
I think the main reason vscode is so popular is, because there aren’t really good native alternatives (e.g. I wouldn’t compare e.g. vim because it’s kind of a different target audience).
So maybe something like zed or so will take the reign of this class of editors, but we’ll see, I just hope it’s not yet another electron or DOM based editor, DOM is bad enough in the web already…
jim_stark@programming.dev 10 months ago
Aren’t we past this point?
Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You are talking about transmitting every bit of code you write to the internet. Go ahead if you want that, I don’t
jim_stark@programming.dev 10 months ago
I am not saying otherwise. But do we still have a say?
firelizzard@programming.dev 10 months ago
Yes. It is still entirely possible to run VSCode or VSCodium locally without any of that cloud crap.
philm@programming.dev 10 months ago
Is it good technically though? Or is it just really popular because it’s so well maintained and extensible?
I think the main reason vscode is so popular is, because there aren’t really good native alternatives (e.g. I wouldn’t compare e.g. vim because it’s kind of a different target audience).
So maybe something like zed or so will take the reign of this class of editors, but we’ll see, I just hope it’s not yet another electron or DOM based editor, DOM is bad enough in the web already…
jim_stark@programming.dev 10 months ago
Unfortunately, yes.