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And it wasn't just Erich, it was many of his Team members from the original Eclipse team that wrote VSCode. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, James.

Hah, I didn't realize Erich Gamma was involved with VS Code (partly because I'm not a big Code user, and was always an IntelliJ over Eclipse kind of person). Gamma and Hejlsberg really are quite the pair that MS picked up all those years ago.

I see here yet another failure of Open Core to work out for the creator of an Open Source project. $27B of apparent value for an editor, none of it realised by Microsoft; and the value/lock-in proposition actually ended up being ripe for vendor-neutral duplication.

Yeah. But the value to Microsoft of creating and distributing VS Code? So huge.

for the time being, yes; depends on where the centre of gravity is for vs code in 2-3 years. a $27B valuation for cursor seems like a huge bet on that centre shifting.