> Microsoft hasn't yet fucked it up the way they have so many other things.

Not for lack of trying, the amount of CoPilot cruft bundled with the core IDE is growing quarterly.

Vs code is a weapon, designed to fracture. It being “good” is a weapon as well. https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

Did you try intellij ever?

And are you a vscode original? or came from vim/emacs?

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