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>>swyx+(OP)
$3B for a fork of an IDE which Microsoft keeps crippling by the day by making it's best extensions not work with forks (eg. C++, Python, C#, Remote SSH, etc)..

>>crimso+hV
It's easy to downplay as a fork because it's such a young product but ultimately if people use Cursor or Windsurf instead of VSCode then it is VSCode that needs to worry about being upstream from them and Cursor or Windsurf making their extensions no longer work with VSCode.

>>whywhy+b01
Microsoft "owns" OpenAI, which now owns Windsurf, which cloned VSCode.

I think it's going to be fine.

This is xAI buying Twitter, with extra steps.