>*but it was always my impression that much of the power either editor has comes...

coldtea on May 2, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: I've spent the last two years building a new email...

>but it was always my impression that much of the power either editor has comes from 3rd party extensions rather than the editor core

A lot of it, yes. But VSCode also invests a lot in core functionality (in what in other platforms would be plugins). The Git integration is one such example -- or the ability to debug Chrome in it.