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blindluck
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Why are so many coding assistant forks? Is it fashion or is there a technical reason? Imagine Python support being a fork. Or live server.
dsmurrell
on Sept 17, 2024
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Because it's hard to reimplement VSCode from scratch?
blindluck
on Sept 17, 2024
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VSCode has plugins
andypants
on Sept 17, 2024
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They are making changes that cannot be done or are very difficult with vscode extensions
blindluck
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What might they be? API calls, read all files, write to files, side bar, UI interactions in editor. These are things I would imagine an extension can do. Continue.dev is an example.
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