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Re:Emacs Tramp over AWS SSM APIs by criddell on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:23PM (#27824336)
> How?

Microsoft has done a lot better job promoting VSCode than GNU has promoting Emacs for the past few years. More mindshare among influential developers / evangelists has lead to massive increases in adoption which leads to better extensions which in turn fuels more adoption.

It probably doesn't hurt that VSCode uses the MIT license.

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Re:Emacs Tramp over AWS SSM APIs by ithrow on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @02:26PM (#27824371)
The vscode remote plugin is developed by microsoft and it's closed source. I can see why, it gives them a competitive advantage over all rival IDEs.
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