There's already PlatformIO for that. VSCode is not really open and has nasty tracking included. The source is available under MIT however if you strip the track

There's already PlatformIO for that. VSCode is not really open and has nasty tracking included. The source is available under MIT however if you strip the tracking out and build that code like VSCodium does you may no longer use the add-on repositories of VSCode and have to use open-vsx.org. And the standard extensions made by Microsoft like the C/C++ extension may not be published by open-vsx.org. Since PlatformIO integration with VSCode/VSCodium is dependent on this extension you can not run it without submitting to tracking. That sucks. See also https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6518 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6518