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Related: I wonder if GitHub / Microsoft regret open sourcing VSCode. I understand that it made them more aligned with developers but does that outweigh the massive headstart it gave companies like Cursor and Windsurf?

with the news of openai potentially acquiring windsurf, i'm just left wondering how github fumbled the ball on ai so hard. 

github is a strong business so this is not a huge knock on them but.. they could have had it all. they have all developers. they know the space and have

Stammy

Related: I wonder if GitHub / Microsoft regret open sourcing VSCode. I understand that it made them more aligned with developers but does that outweigh the massive headstart it gave companies like Cursor and Windsurf?

https://x.com/Stammy/status/1912591052827234549

Zed is starting to come online. They are shipping good stuff.

- AI Tab completion, powered by Zeta (their in house language model)
- Native git support
- Tasks - think templates to run terminal commands

I'm starting to see the primitives comes together. Competing with VS Code is not easy- and they're essentially rebuilding it all from scratch, outside the stranglehold of Microsoft.

And, they're building in public, using zed to build zed. They will soon be shipping:

- Agentic Editing https://zed.dev/ai/agent?x=50
- Support for Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Continued improvements to Zeta
- Debugger

Maybe it allows others to innovate, then they can just copy the features (like they just did with adding agentic editing) and go into license enforcement mode

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Maybe it allows others to innovate, then they can just copy the features (like they just did with adding agentic editing) and go into license enforcement mode 

https://warpcast.com/pfista/0x8884314c

Nah, if it wasn't them it would have been another open source editor like Atom

they had the same headstart in this case, i think it's a skill/execution issue here

It should only be called Open Source Software if you also allow uninhibited access to forks, otherwise it’s just Sparkling Virtue Signalling