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Live share webstorm6/16/2023 ![]() ![]() I switch a year and half ago to Rider from visual studio and I didn’t regret it. It happend to a lots of products and they are still doing that. That is becoming a habit for Microsoft to ban interoperability and loose the share in the Market. Opening the API (or at least removing the prohibitions and simply allowing free reverse-engineering) could potentially pave the way for amazing collaboration! I see this as a way for everyone to continue using the IDE of their choice, but able to work with each other.Īnd I must admit that I don't understand the restriction anyway: LiveShare is free in a free product (VSCode), so what does Microsoft stand to lose by opening the API? I can't see a rational reason not to open it up. The LiveShare binaries that are used by VSCode specifically prohibit reverse-engineering or re-use without authorisation - I know, because I looked into piggy-backing off of them! ![]() None of their products are specifically anti-competitive or exclusionary, at least, not to my knowledge. I've had licensing for their products for quite a few years now, both through their open-source initiatives and, for the last 2+ years, commercial licenses that my workplace has provided. I don't think JetBrains ignores heterogeneous environments, tbh.
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