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Why does it try to look like vscode clone?

I understand that the vscode ecosystem is awesome. However, I always felt like the UI was severaly lacking behind proper IDE like intellij.

Give me intellij-like documentation popup, run, build & debug buttons and debug UI, and I will switch in an instant!

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Hey, Onivim contributor here.

Unfortunately none of the main contributors are designers. I think we end up with a very VSCode-similar look because in terms of UX that’s our main inspiration. We do diverge in some areas, though.

Debug functionality is on our radar and it will hopefully be in relatively soon!

look at something like Obsidian for modern editor UX

This is what irked me about it. We already have VS Code. For me the defaults there are tolerable, but not the pinnacle of ergonomics.

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