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		Szpadel 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kiro: A new agentic IDE why it required forking vscode? what prevents this from being just extension? from article I do not see any obvious functionality that would prevent such implementation

touristtam 8 days ago [–]

Maybe the fact that MSFT has been break extensions for fork is enough?

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