It's been great to experiment with RStudio's transition to [Electron](https://dailies.rstudio.com/rstudio/spotted-wakerobin/electron/bionic/). Will the forthcoming [standalone Quarto visual editor](https://quarto.org/docs/visual-editor/#getting-started) also be based on Electron?

If so, given the runaway success of extension registries for Electron-based text editors (e.g. [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/plugins), [VS Code](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/vscode), [OpenVSX](https://open-vsx.org/)), do you anticipate making an extension API (e.g., [Obsidian API](https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api), [VS Code API](https://code.visualstudio.com/api)) available for the standalone Quarto visual editor?

A final thought is, given the polyglot spirit of Quarto, would such an API have bindings to JavaScript/TypeScript only, or could it have bindings to R and Python?
2022-03-06T05:15:15Z
gvelasq
Future
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Feature request: Extensibility of the standalone Quarto visual editor
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/388