I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.
I am in the process of switching to JetBrains. Still need to use vscode for work but at home it is all JB. I think once fleet becomes more mature it will be a serious competitor for vscode. Wish these products were OSS but at least they aren’t M$ products