Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
ghuntley.com
I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.
  • Fracture@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Nothing is free. And in this case, VSC is just a tool for microsoft to gain market share

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
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    2 years ago

    We don’t technically need VSC, since other compilers and IDEs exist, and we don’t technically need GitHub, since other gits exist. But, yes, they can totally destroy this ecosystem and, honestly, likely will eventually. Maybe I’m being cynical, but it does seem like something they would do…