Comment by alecsm
2 days ago
Are you asking why is it bad that MS disables a plugin you're using to shove down your throat a paying alternative?
2 days ago
Are you asking why is it bad that MS disables a plugin you're using to shove down your throat a paying alternative?
It's a plugin that I'm not using, don't care about using, and cannot see any conceivable use for.
No-one wants this. If they make it a paid-for version, it affects no-one.
> It's a plugin that I'm not using, don't care about using, and cannot see any conceivable use for.
> No-one wants this.
So, fun fact about earth: there are lots of people on it, and some of those people aren't you, and some of those people who aren't you actually have desires that are different from yours.
I think it makes the planet a pretty fun and interesting place, but it also does mean generalizing from "I don't want this" (totally fine! Awesome! Makes sense!) to "no one wants this" is usually not very productive.
> No-one wants this
IntelliCode has 60M downloads and is the 11th most downloaded extension for all of VS Code. Also consider that there's 6 official Python-related extensions above it that could all be rolled into one, and Copilot just above it which (to my knowledge) is installed by default in newer versions of VS Code.
Just because it doesn't affect you personally doesn't mean it affects no one. You aren't in fact the centre of the universe.
Okay then, so if it's so popular, what does it do that I would want? Why is it supposed to be worth having?
Just because you don't feel the effect of something, doesn't mean it doesn't have an effect at all.
> No-one wants this. If they make it a paid-for version, it affects no-one.
You didn't read the article, did you?
"... deactivated the popular IntelliCode extension, which had over 60 million downloads..."
I'm a Microsoft hater, but let's stick to facts here, over 60 million downloads is not "no-one".
I'm guessing that's 60 million people that don't have a small child that can just type stuff that looks kind of like code but doesn't actually work like code.
No real need for a plugin, there.
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