I bet VSCode only added a central "disable all AI features" checkbox so that they can more easily ignore my preference and forcibly uncheck it on every update. If I had to go around hacking the editor to hide buttons and disable triggers, it would be a lot more work for them to break all those hacks.

That does sound like microsoft modus operandi, looking at the shit they keep trying to make people use edge

Consider to use Zed. It's made in Rust and it's amazing how this reduces lag. Regarding Ai it has one simple built-in agent that you can just click away, like the terminal. I'm using it for a few days and do see it as a good alternative for people who are not mycg tooling dependant. It has not much plugins, but as terminal warrior like to do certain thing myself through terminal anyway.

@whimsical The only reason I use VSCode in the first place is the plugins, but I'll check out Zed soon-ish once the Orchid stdlib is a decent ways written and I can start (re)building the editor plugins. If by now Zed has added custom procedural tokenizers, I'll do Zed before VSCode which could not figure out this basic feature for 5 years and instead uses fucking Textmate grammars.

Luckily Rust is well enough supported in Zed ootb and that's pretty much all the ecosystem I need to base Orchid's DX upon.