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What specifically about VS Code?

I personally don’t use it, pretty much just cause I’m comfortable with my current development environment, and nothing has spurred me to migrate in a while. I’ve been vaguely suspicious to see Microsoft rapidly gain such a huge market share with VS Code, but I don’t know any specific criticisms about it.



VS code is designed to fracture. https://ghuntley.com/fracture/


Sounds like the argument is while it’s technically open source, trickiness with the licenses makes it basically impossible to legally fork it into a usable software. That sounds plausible to me, I’m no lawyer.

But isn’t Cursor a wildly successful VS Code fork, done legally? (I assume if it were in violation of licenses, Microsoft would have already destroyed them.) Seems like a glaring exception to this argument.


The secret sauce in Cursor is checks notes ignoring Microsofts license terms and hacking around Microsofts countermeasures and attempts at blocking them. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43587420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616838 etc.




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