In order for the canvas to be meaningful, the individual code windows need to be related to each other; eg. like a visual programming language or a notebook, with sockets and connectors.

Otherwise, it needs to be more like canva / miro, where the canvas is a rich target to place notes and graphics with the code editor embedded in it.

I think iterating on the linear jupyter notebook (eg. make it a graph of executable script blocks) is a worthwhile thing to do... but just having multiple code windows side by side is something you can already do, with normal code editors.

So... I think most people will find this isn't as exciting as they imagine.

I downloaded it and had a play; honestly I found it quite charming and it worked well, but I immediately wanted to put sticky notes next to my code files like it was a miro board, and then zoom out to see all the files arranged together; but you can do neither of those things with it currently.

So... cool idea, but after using it for 30 minutes or so I couldn't really see any particular reason currently to not just go back to vscode...

I really really wanted to open it up, drop 5 files onto the canvas and them zoom out and edit them all at the same time, and I couldn't.

(but hey, you can literally just download and run it, and it works. Have a play, see what you think. That's just my first impression of it)

(side note: boo. AI. There's literally zero value in the AI attached to this. Just rely on your vscode extensions if you want that. Having it baked into the editor is lame 'I also do AI!' hype. I couldn't see any reason it has, or you would want, to have baked in AI instead of any normal vscode AI extension)