Re: A peek to the other side

["Samuel Banya" <sbanya@fastmail.com>]

Even to add to this though, all of these kind of token 'look at me' features that VS Code pushes has already been in use by things like 'tmux' for a while now.

They're just trying to make it 'simple' for the average person to just give in to using it within their ecosystem.

Good point though, I forgot about VS Codium, but that's kind of like the Ungoogled Chromium debate.

If you can't trust the main project, then, can you truly trust the forked one?

Anyway, just some things to think about.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, at 2:17 PM, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> "Samuel Banya" <sbanya@fastmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The only good thing about VS Code was that it created more LSP servers for LSP Mode.
> >
> > Otherwise, spyware by default is not good for anyone (and yes, it is not easy for the average person to remove).
> 
> Not only that, but it pushes non-free "plug-ins" that break if you
> decided to use a De-Microsofted version of the editor (I believe the
> live-collaboration package, and remote access are examples of such
> plug-ins, but there are also LSP servers like pylance that per license
> are only allowed to be used with MS VS Code).
> 
> > Still grateful for LSP Mode :) 
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, at 2:11 AM, emacsq via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> >> I tried making a Visual Studio Code extension to see how it could be make more emacs-like if I had to use it for something.
> >> 
> >> If you didn't you don't know how lucky you are with the integrated Elisp manual. It doesn't have an integrated manual, you have to browse a huge HTML file to find some API call :
> >> 
> >> https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api
> >> 
> >> And as usual with APIs (unlike Emacs' open system) you can only access what the developers expose via the API which is very limiting compared to Emacs.
> >> You can't change everything, so you don't shoot yourself in the foot. I prefer Emacs' approach where I can even break the system, which is a great learning experience.
> >
> 
> -- 
> Philip Kaludercic
> 
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