Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
This is a good summary of the playing field, but I think they&#x27;re way overblowing the panic<p>In summary Microsoft has:<p>- Made an incredibly good web-based code editor which is 100% OSS, no strings attached<p>- Made an extensions repository and a bunch of really high quality first-party extensions that have restricted licenses<p>Sure, in a perfect world the whole thing would be fully OSS. But in the worst-case, where people some day decide they want to fork or whatever, we&#x27;re still much better off than before VSCode. The editor project is a net gain, even if forking means building some of the other bits yourself. This is still a net <i>increase</i> in value for everyone- even if you exclude the restricted parts; not a decrease, much less an apocalypse.