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chii on May 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io

unfortunately, the API and such for creating an intellij plugin (and creating it well!) is much more difficult than a VScode plugin.

And the structure of VSCode probably makes it easier to write standard code that doesn't perform poorly (it's a browser after all).

enitihas on May 11, 2020 [–]

Yup, but that is the same as how VSCode makes extending itself more difficult than emacs, but is more full featured and requires less tweaking. They lie on different points of the continuum.

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