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no_wizardtoday at 2:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

The ubiquity of their plugin model is why. Near all editors have a VS code plugin compatible layer


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pjmlptoday at 2:17 PM

Yeah, and with it Eclipse wins a second time, especially on embedded where Eclipse CDT forks were replaced by VSCode forks.

"Project Ticino: Microsoft's Erich Gamma on Visual Studio Code past, present, and future"

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/28/erich_gamma_on_vs_cod...

embedding-shapetoday at 2:58 PM

> Near all editors have a VS code plugin compatible layer

Huh, never heard about this before, and took a look at emacs and vim/neovim as those are the two most popular editors I know of, neither can run VS code plugins, that'd be crazy if true.

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