I would bet they meant the editor “Zed”.

I guess the point is that VSCode won because it collected critical mass (despite people practically chanting Microsoft’s “embrace, extend, extinguish” game plan). If a sort of exodus were to happen, perhaps that same critical mass would stoke the flames of mass plugin catch-up.

I have no skin in the game, I’m just a guy in the internet back alley throwing down a couple bucks on a dice game.