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Spent months fighting VS Code webviews, so I built a universal protocol

Spent months fighting VS Code webviews, so I built a universal protocol

by aldgar·May 14, 2026·1 point·0 comments

AI Analysis

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Solves the 30-year-old portability nightmare with a single runtime contract.

Strengths
  • Wire-protocol approach means zero background processes or heavy runtimes.
  • Declarative manifest registers native UI panels across different editors automatically.
  • Built-in MCP server index solves the fragmented AI tooling configuration problem.
Weaknesses
  • Chicken-and-egg problem: needs critical mass of extensions to attract editor support.
  • Relies on host editors adopting the runtime spec rather than just wrapping APIs.
Target Audience

Extension developers and plugin maintainers

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Eclipse RCP · Theia · OpenVSX

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