Comment by falcor84 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by falcor84 | Hacker News Reader

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> Why jump through hoops to make competitors better able

Because that is the competitive philosophy that allowed VS Code win in this space. It fits with that great quote from Bill Gates: "A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it."

By having VS Code give a priority to another MS/GitHub product that they aren't willing to give competitors, they're diminishing VS Code's value as a platform, and encouraging competitors to build their own IDEs rather than building on top of it.

That just tells you where in the EEE lifecycle you are.

    Embrace, extend, and extinguish
          `--->

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin...

Embracing, extending, and extinguishing their own tool?

Please consider what you are going to say before you say it.

No, an ecosystem and culture of open source software development tooling.

Oh my sweet summer child...

do you have anything respectful to say, or just this disrespectful, dismissive response?

If you want to have a discussion, then let's have one. Step one is to have the discussion in good faith. If you're not capable of that, then don't respond at all.

> Please consider what you are going to say before you say it.

Do as I say , not as I do?

> Embracing, extending, and extinguishing their own tool?

Consider how C# support in VSCode got nerfed recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31760684

https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/5276

There was another event only a few months ago, but I can't find the reference.

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