$Pets is really showing some strong pump action this time. I just found an interesting piece of info—the original creator of the VS Code pet plugin has joined the community, which explains a lot.

By the way, VS Code is now pretty much the standard code editor for programmers. Its killer feature is the open ecosystem; the plugin marketplace lets developers create all sorts of tools themselves, offering maximum flexibility. Because of this openness, VS Code plugin authors actually have quite a bit of influence in the developer community.

It's pretty rare to see this kind of influence from a tech community spill over into a crypto project.