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Don't understand why Microsoft is being accused of EEE, when Cursor is the one extending the functionality to VS Code. Can't you just say "Cursor good, Microsoft bad" without the straw grasping?

Must be a rough weekend for those working at cursor! Damn just when it’s starting to get really nice out too.

Using the C# debugger is also restricted to Visual Studio & VScode. Microsoft loves open source, and windows is the most open operating system (look it up).

It’s totally not embrace, extend, extinguish in any disguise.

Coopetition exists (I’d point to the CNCF), but corporations do that really, really, begrudgingly only just due to the sheer complexity.

While I do not suspect that the somewhat benevolent notions will wane in the near future (the data is valuable enough, and you cannot afford to lose to another player), I sincerely enjoy just opting out because I like doing that.

Not really a surprise. The TOS for the extension marketplace has been clear that it's only to be used for VS Code, that's why VSCodium doesn't use it. Cursor devs undoubtedly knew better, but kept breaking TOS and licenses, MS just chose a strategic moment to enforce the rules already in place.

Cursor not being an extension from the start seemed odd to me, and they wouldn't be in this rough spot if they had done that.

This is why I’m looking at neovim

As much as I like vscode it’s making me a little uncomfortable being reliant on it

AMACM: awful microsoft anti-competition mechanism

on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1jrl2zw/micros...

Embrace... Extend... Say it with me - EXTINGUISH!

Seems like an unfair advantage in a market they control. Exercising monopolistic control

No confirmation from MS, but as usual conspiracy theorists are confident in the final conclusion.

You'd think if the release of copilot's Agent mode is what prompted this move, they'd be doing it in those languages more popular among vibe-coders first wouldn't you?