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When this inevitably happens to VSCode, I'm sure we'll all flock to Sublime Text in droves (or some hip new editor on the block). Contingency planning for this
by tediousdemise 4y ago
When this inevitably happens to VSCode, I'm sure we'll all flock to Sublime Text in droves (or some hip new editor on the block).
Contingency planning for this could be a small but wise time investment for dependent teams. VSCode could very well go the way of the Do... Docker.
- taude 4y agoSounds like premature optimization. I'd actually worry if the engineers I work with couldn't pick up a new IDE/text editor, etc. pretty easily and quickly, if and when something like this happens. And I'd say the risk of it happening in the next three to five years is pretty minimal at this point.
- emerongi 4y ago> I'd actually worry if the engineers I work with couldn't pick up a new IDE/text editor, etc. pretty easily and quickly Once you start making full use of your editor, switching to a new one and reaching the same level of proficiency takes a long time. I can edit code even in notepad, but I can't ever be as fluid in it as my main editor. I've changed my editor multiple times and it's a huge pain every time.
- pineconewarrior 4y agoI am sticking to my Intellij products for this very reason. They work great and the motives of the company are straightforward.
- colordrops 4y agoSame, but nvim
- edgyquant 4y agoWhy would this happen to VsCode? VSCode is a proprietary form of Atom is not? It’s hugely successful Microsoft would never do such a thing.
- IncRnd 4y agoThe codebases of VS Code and Atom are unrelated to each other.
- edgyquant 4y agoIndeed. At least I’m not the first person to make this mistake https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872976 https://thenextweb.com/news/microsofts-cross-platform-visual-studio-code-app-is-based-on-githubs-atom-editor https://thenextweb.com/news/microsofts-cross-platform-visual... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221917
- mumblemumble 4y agoSort of? They maintain a trademark on the name Visual Studio Code and some other bits. And it is maintained by a Microsoft team. But the code itself is MIT licensed. You can build it yourself. I have. There are one or two forks of it out there.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoI don't know why Microsoft would do that - VSCode is HUGELY popular and at the forefront of Microsoft "I'm cool now guys!" 'open-source' movement.
- IncRnd 4y ago> Contingency planning for this could be a small but wise time investment for dependent teams. I doubt that switching an editor requires a disaster-recovery plan.
- leakbang 4y agoModern tech companies love to look busy and find the most perplexing solutions for the most basic problems. I guess they have lots of "solutions" to "design and implement".
- llllllllllll9 4y ago:)
- jrochkind1 4y agoWhile any software can be cancelled, I'd say Atom is being cancelled because of investment in VS Code (both currently owned by MS), I don't see any reason to think it's "inevitable" that VSCode will be cancelled, except in the sense that eventually everyone dies and the earth falls into the sun.
- serf 4y ago> When this inevitably happens to VSCode, I'm sure we'll all flock to Sublime Text in droves (or some hip new editor on the block). the normalization of this behavior within the industry makes using emacs or vim even more satisfying. it's nice to having an unchanging cement foundation to stand upon once-in-awhile.
- tediousdemise 4y agoAbsolutely. Why continuously reinvent the wheel when there are far more interesting problems to work on :)