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I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

VSCode is a modern emacs. Similar concept, a single editor to do everything via extensions. That's the selling point. "young people" never had the chance to work with a similar concept, this is why they found it so revolutionary (despite being a concept from the 70s).

I use it because I am forced to use a windows laptop at work, and emacs on windows is a painful experience

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How dare you! Emacs is modern emacs!

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ahahah, emacs is immortal