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Aren’t most devs working on existing apps?

Don’t most devs tend to be extremely sticky to their preferred dev env (last big migration was ST -> VS Code back in 2015-2017)

Read all the comments in here. Still not getting why this isn’t a VS Code plugin.

Distribution almost always beats product.

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Maybe to spite Mircosoft? I would love to completely remove Microsoft from my workflow. The way telemetry creeps into everything bugs the hell out of me. I also really don't like the security model of vscode where it's assumed that any code you look at comes from a trusted source, and might execute code on your local system. That's a ridiculous security assumption for a text editor, but not surprising considering that these people also made MS Office.

When I run VS Code on Mac and open some new non trusted directory it literally forces me to click “yes” in dialog that says something like “do you trust stuff in this directory to be able to run code?” Is this a Mac only thing and maybe you use windows or linux? Cuz I found your security concern addressed to an almost obnoxious extent…

This "trust" thing is on all platforms. I turn it off as soon as it shows up, since it's pointless IMO.

I dislike telemetry as much as the next guy, but it is a little funny to complain about it on the post for this editor, which instead sends your entire codebase to OpenAI.

Also it's a somewhat recent update, but VSCode asks you if you trust the code author now when you open a project https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/workspace-trust

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