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Why are so many coding assistant forks? Is it fashion or is there a technical reason? Imagine Python support being a fork. Or live server.
by blindluck 2y ago
Why are so many coding assistant forks? Is it fashion or is there a technical reason? Imagine Python support being a fork. Or live server.
- dsmurrell 2y agoBecause it's hard to reimplement VSCode from scratch?
- blindluck 2y agoVSCode has plugins
- andypants 2y agoThey are making changes that cannot be done or are very difficult with vscode extensions
- blindluck 2y agoWhat might they be? API calls, read all files, write to files, side bar, UI interactions in editor. These are things I would imagine an extension can do. Continue.dev is an example.