Comment by pjmlp

2 days ago

Including everyone that ships Chrome with their application as "native" app.

VSCode gets a pass, because apparently it is the only programmer's editor that many only care about providing plugins nowadays.

The ubiquity of their plugin model is why. Near all editors have a VS code plugin compatible layer

  • > Near all editors have a VS code plugin compatible layer

    Huh, never heard about this before, and took a look at emacs and vim/neovim as those are the two most popular editors I know of, neither can run VS code plugins, that'd be crazy if true.

    • If you count LSP (Language Server Protocol) as a VSCode plugin-compatible layer as LSP was built and standardized by the VSCode team (so many do), then Emacs and Neovim are full of VSCode-compatible plugins today. One of Neovim's selling points right now over bare Vim is better/more direct LSP support.

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    • Very long time vim/neovim user here. I can't remember names atm and can't check, but I have definitely seen plugins that run a headless or subset of VScode in the background to pull info from it. It may not be super common, but it is being done

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