Damn they went hard on Copilot on this release
VS Code
They've been doing that for about the last 6 releases. I wish they'd fix some of the long-standing annoying bugs like the fact that you can't respect .gitignore
and search in a subdirectory at the same time. Or the fact that you can't stage a submodule unless you also have that submodule open.
Or how about a less annoying way to configure Run/Debug than launch.json
?
Still, can't complain. It's mostly free and still very good overall. I'll definitely be watching Zed... but maybe not too closely until it supports opening large files.
Got a link to the ticket about some modules? I think that must have been inconsistent behavior I've been observing when attempting to stage them from my super project.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/205125
Also I found this duplicate: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/211508
There's probably more...
I wonder if the slowdown in non-ai features this release was influenced in some way by their migration away from AMD modules to ES modules.
Putting myself in their shoes and taking codemods into account, I wouldn't want to make a big feature and have to worry about AMD/ES module concerns. Why do that when instead I could get a bunch of checking and smaller (but non headline) tasks out of the way and get back onto the larger features in 1-2 months after the ES modules are proven to work and I don't have to worry about rolling back changes.
Either that, or sometimes by statistical eventuality we end up with changes (which all take a different time to be completed) just not being released within a small period of time.
An open source-ish corporate product is valuable in so much as it’s a vehicle for a paid service, right?