thesis: vs code is a game engine. consider:
- produced by a billion dollar company
- renders using opengl
- optimized like dogshit
- ships using a cursed runtime inheited down generations
- people hate it but use it anyway
- updates every few weeks, if something breaks the developer mostly just ignores you
- building anything involves gigabytes of artefacts
- there's ai in it for inexplicable reasons
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