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On one hand, anything to make learning to program easier is a good thing. On the other, every time I hear about Microsoft getting deeper into the open source c

On one hand, anything to make learning to program easier is a good thing. On the other, every time I hear about Microsoft getting deeper into the open source community, it feels like a friend is telling me she's getting back with an abusive ex because he's changed. I know its a very large company with many faces each with their own pros and cons. I also know vscode is quite good, and if they pulled some classic Microsoft trickery it would be forked. At this point It's just a gut reaction to all things Microsoft, I don't even remember why I don't like them anymore. Still, more and better software is a good thing. More people learning is a good thing. I don't know, I just think some of the overly negative comments are being bashed more than they deserve, because they were being emotional and not acknowledging it.

accusitive 6y ago
VSCode is forked, into Vscode-oss and vscodium. These forks are small-minor changes, just building without microsoft's telemetry, so nothing that substantial.
- shuntress 6y ago
  For context: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between-the-repository-and-Visual-Studio-Code https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between...
- betamaxthetape 6y ago
  While there are only minor changes between VSCode and the open source builds, increasingly the ecosystem around VSCode is becoming proprietary. For example, the Remote Development extension is proprietary[1]. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/faq#_why-arent-the-remote-development-extensions-or-their-components-open-source https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/faq#_why-arent-the...
randomsearch 6y ago
I think MS are being smart. Go after the developers, design the IDEs, the repo software, the languages, and then get them developing for Azure.
brundolf 6y ago
The optimistic interpretation is that they just want to repair their image in the minds of developers, so that more developers feel open to using Azure (Developers! Developers! Developers!) But I agree there's something unnerving about how deep their grasp has been getting lately

accusitive 6y ago

VSCode is forked, into Vscode-oss and vscodium. These forks are small-minor changes, just building without microsoft's telemetry, so nothing that substantial.

shuntress 6y ago
For context: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between-the-repository-and-Visual-Studio-Code https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between...
betamaxthetape 6y ago
While there are only minor changes between VSCode and the open source builds, increasingly the ecosystem around VSCode is becoming proprietary. For example, the Remote Development extension is proprietary[1]. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/faq#_why-arent-the-remote-development-extensions-or-their-components-open-source https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/faq#_why-arent-the...

randomsearch 6y ago

I think MS are being smart. Go after the developers, design the IDEs, the repo software, the languages, and then get them developing for Azure.

brundolf 6y ago

The optimistic interpretation is that they just want to repair their image in the minds of developers, so that more developers feel open to using Azure (Developers! Developers! Developers!) But I agree there's something unnerving about how deep their grasp has been getting lately