I haven't been excited for vscode releases for a long time. It's all just AI functionality, which I couldn't care less about.
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Yeah I wish they were spending some development effort on the actual IDE and not just all AI stuff. There's still basic stuff like the Process Viewer CPU usage just not working at all, which makes it very difficult to diagnose performance issues - one of the main complaints people have about VSCode!
Though I will say using AI to generate alt text is a pretty decent idea.
I just ditched it last month, finally. For Codium though, I'm still not committed to a retvrn to emacs. Exciting though, should be a new version out soon then! Edit: well, maybe not that exciting. I just checked the link and of course its like 95% "improvements" to the forced Copilot integration.
Codium is honestly a really nice product. Atom was my go to editor before MS aquired Github and turned it into vscode and I still like it, but without all the MS bullshit (so codium).
But yeah all the AI crap is taking all the development time now.