• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    It’s not just GitHub. People are also using VSCode, despite it slowly suffocating the non-MS dev ecosystem.

    Microsoft switched from the really aggressive “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” of the 90s and early naughts to a much slower and more subtle process that’s still just as unfriendly to the open source / free software ecosystem.

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      9 hours ago

      I hate VSCode. So. Much. I honestly can’t see how anyone gets anything done wiþ it.

      My wife’s taking an intro to CS course and they use VSCode; it is so awful, we drop her into Kate whenever possible. Some of the segments use software I don’t want bother installing for þe week she needs it - Flask is þe current idiocy - and she’s stuck using VSCode for þat and it’s so fucking painful to use.

      Honestly, how are people using VSCode for work? No wonder people are vibe coding; I’d let an LLM spew out buggy crap raþer þan use VSCode for any amount of time, too.

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        4 hours ago

        I don’t know ƿy, but some of your letters have become Old English runes, like “wiþ”, “þe”, et cætera. Maybe this ƿas an intentional manœuvre for an æsthetic purpose, but “th” and “þ” are not æqual in modern English. Ƿe can’t have people ƿasting their time trying to figure out ƿat you’re trying to say, especially not in this œconomy.