[sterlinm]

I've been wishing that JetBrains and Posit (nee RStudio) would adopt the devcontainer standard, but then I just read this article [1] about how MSFT is using VS Code's weird mix of open-source and proprietary components to fracture the market and ensure that any competitors who try to build off of VS Code are at a permanent disadvantage. Now I'm having second thoughts.

Devcontainers are a good example of their strategy. VS Code's source code is open source, but the devcontainers extension is not [2] and alternative vscode-in-the-browser providers are not able to use the devcontainers extension as they're not allowed to use the official VS Code extension marketplace.

[1] https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ [2] https://twitter.com/castrojo/status/1671544329402302464?s=20