Post #467449
2026-03-01 10:06 UTC
Centralized platforms for multiple uses and a huge tool ecosystem. That is it. It is simply much much much easier to set up and get a consistent experience.
Embedded coding has an extremely scattered ecosystem of vendor-run IDE forks which are usually a pretty bad experience.
Their commandline documentation is often complete trash so instead of fixing that, they just make a simple plugin for vscode and they have a cross-compatible IDE that already works with all of their customers’ favorite plugins with very little work.
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@FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-03-02 00:26
I understand and agree with you. Various companies go out of their way to make plugin-ins for the platform that everyone uses and everyone uses the platform because of the additional support that it receives on account of being the most popular. Microsoft is the one that ultimately benefits by being able to make anti-consumer decisions because each individual decision by Microsoft isn’t as bad as the friction required to switch and learn to a new IDE. Microsoft can move the product in any direction that they want as long as they do it in steps tiny enough to not scare people away from their platform. In the end we’re the frogs that they’re boiling, eventually you gotta jump out of the pot.