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Microsoft previews new XML format for Visual Studio solutions – but replacing a longstanding format is a messy business (devclass.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The issue is that they already monopolized code editors and this is the vendor lock in move to keep people there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm not quite sure why you're being downvoted for this. I don't use VS Code at all, but they have done a good job of getting VS Code to be extremely used and have made the predictable steps to prevent the open source versions from being equivalent/compatible, mostly by restricting the extensions.