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Why are there so many people making code editors?

It seems like we've hit a veritable Cambrian explosion of editors and I don't understand what market signals are being picked up where people find the editors insufficient.

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WD-42|3 months ago

Do you consider forking VSCode making a code editor? I wouldn't. Not that this is one of those, but most "new" editors seem to be.

kgwxd|3 months ago

LSP for sure. I was itching to try my hand at it when they first got big, but never got around to it.

brazukadev|3 months ago

Software is changing, everything is up for grabs. Lots of people are making Notion clones, slack clones, browsers, IDEs.

apatheticonion|3 months ago

> slack clones

As an anecdote - I really want to see consolidation here. All my chat services under one parent application. WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Messenger.

I really don't care about the vendor for chat services, just exhausted of installing multiple clients and many of the clients being pretty garbage.

I would also like to say the same for many services. Online banking is top of mind for me right now as I have several bank accounts chasing competitive savings rates.