I think that's true! Isn't that good, though? The whole point of Positron was the desire to deliver something more than what VS Code could offer, even with high-quality extensions.

What do you mean by "VS Code support"? I don't think we've had much involvement with vscode-r or {languageserver} at all; both seem like community efforts.

Positron inherits much of the extension development experience from VS Code. In my experience it feels pretty good.

However, you are fairly limited in the kind of custom UI you can inject. Best to look here to see what's (generally) possible first: code.visualstudio.com/api/extensio...

... meanwhile, internally, we're like "OH GOD THERE ARE SO MANY UX BUGS TO FIX".

The other VS Code forks (Cursor, etc.) don't really seem to have leaned into this extensibility by adding APIs of their own, but #Positron has, and it's been a ton of fun to build #rstats tooling in Typescript because of this.

Privatelink woes subtweet?

OpenTelemetry is a hugely popular collection of SDKs and specifications for vendor-neutral observability, but that doesn't sound all that exciting in isolation. I'd suggest watching some demos for distributed tracing with one of the big platforms that implement it, e.g. Grafana Tempo.