I think LOTS of people use it for C++ code. I know it's very popular for Go and Rust.

i love how your posts like this are how i find out whatever the fuck this dude is up to these days

It gives me everything I need in an IDE (autocomplete, intellisense, test runner, debugging) and nothing I don't (GUI-based data model editing, managing a weird fucking XML file with build settings)

It can be as simple or complex as you want it to be thanks to a truly excellent extension interface and ecosystem. It's _exactly_ what I need it to be, and I love that about it.

Even the hardcore vibe coders aren't using Copilot Agent because it kind of sucks.

Like look, you're not going to compete with Cursor, just let stuff like Cline and Roo handle the agent experience and focus on making a fantastic editor. This shouldn't be rocket science. You did it for years before this industry caught a mind virus

like many people do the two-spaces-after-a-period thing but he has like five. plus an extra period.

presumably different artists for past and present day?

It’s bonkers lol

thank you for your service.

llms have taken much from the world, but i haven't had to manually write a regex or bash script in two years, and I think that's beautiful