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I find it's unfair to single out VS Code without mentioning VSCodium, the open source distribution of VS Code.

• tempodox 4y ago
  Depending on what you do, there is stuff that only works in the original VS Code, and not in VSCodium. And the extension stores are different between the two. It's a pity, I'd much prefer VSCodium.
  • idontknowifican 4y ago
    you can do everything in vs codium you can in vs code, it’s just more manual
• loloquwowndueo 4y ago
  Vscodium is a wolf in a sheep’s skin and part of the fracturing strategy VSCode spearheads. https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
  • turtleyacht 4y ago
    > It's because Visual Studio Code is a ramp to move the developer tooling ecosystem towards an end-to-end consumable services model of software development tools > 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 > Microsoft can easily fork open-source communities by changing towards proprietary defaults ("strategically divide the market") as Microsoft has already done twice so far. The way Microsoft forks open-source communities is by releasing Visual Studio Code extension updates that make their proprietary offering the default once they have managed to capture enough adoption...