[cirrus3]

Anything the requires me to use a different IDE is a non-starter for me.

I can imagine it is a lot easier to develop these things as a custom version of VSCode instead of plugins/extensions for a handful of the popular existing IDEs, but is that really a good long term plan? Is the future going to be littered with a bunch of one-off custom IDEs? Does anyone want that future?

[ramesh31]

>Anything the requires me to use a different IDE is a non-starter for me.

Windsurf is, ultimately, just an IDE extension. They shipped a forked VSCode with their branding for... some reason. But the extension is available in practically every IDE/editor.

[newlisp]

The reason for forking is the restrictions of the vscode API, so no, the extensions and the fork are not the same.

[hyperhopper]

Yeah, using VSCode is a different IDE

Why do you assume everybody uses that?

If the product can't be used with the infinitely hackable emacs or vim, that's a shortcoming of the product.

[TiredOfLife]

It has plugins for jetbrains, vim, emacs, sublime