VScode Pets

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This is why it's dangerous to build developer productivity tools on top of a web stack.

Note: This is sarcasm. I like VSCode and hackable platforms!

If the creator of VSCode Pets truly wants to embrace the goofy-90's-desktop-toy aesthetic, they should add a "Boss Button" that immediately hides the dogs and replaces it with a complicated-looking fake YAML.

Can you feed it? will evolve into full blown tamagochi version, and then games... like from the Flash times, do you need those?

What I want is for them to respond to things I do in the editor...writing code and removing code and so on. It could either be canned animations randomly generated in responses to actions or something deeper, like you said with tamagochi, they could get bigger or healthier when you do those things.

Shades of neko [0] - a ridiculous amount of cuteness using a minimalist approach. I approve.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

It reminds me of Dogz/Catz, those 90s desktop virtual pets.

It also reminds me of Vigor, which was vi with Clippy.

This is stupid and I love it

I fear the eventual and inevitable cryptokitties integration.

Anyone out there remember esheep? :)

This was the first thing that came to my mind

Yup

So.... can I get a Clippy pet?

“Puts a small, bored cat, an enthusiastic dog, a feisty snake, or Clippy in your code editor.”

I want to live in a world where the VSCode dev team saw GP’s request, liked it, implemented it, updated the blog post.

I like that world better than the one where I read half the first sentence and post a comment before finishing. The act of collaborating is higher prioritized in my brain than learning.

This is so cool! I love it!

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