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Visual Studio Code is a massive gift to the community. If we take it in a different direction than Microsoft wants, that would be us doing what you are accusing
by LeFantome 4y ago
Visual Studio Code is a massive gift to the community. If we take it in a different direction than Microsoft wants, that would be us doing what you are accusing them of. We can do what we want though. So can they. That’s Open Source!
The CoPilot thing is new and troubling.
- bayindirh 4y ago> So can they. That’s Open Source! Well, it's a very tiny detail, but VSCode proper is not open source, and you can't built VSCode proper from the available source out there.
- pxc 4y agoIt's not a tiny detail. ‘VSCode proper’ includes integration with the extension marketplace that everyone expects to use, as well as exclusive access to proprietary, Microsoft-backed extensions which are widely used throughout the VSCode userbase for essential functionality. Microsoft has arranged things so that actual open-source builds of VSCodium will always be lacking in comparison to their proprietary product.
- bayindirh 4y ago> Microsoft has arranged things so that actual open-source builds of VSCodium will always be lacking in comparison to their proprietary product. Errm, this is also my point, written in a slightly ironic form. This is why I use neither, too.
- pxc 4y agoOh, my apologies! I'm not tuned properly to pick up irony about that on HN since I've read so many posts overlooking the real difference. Hopefully my comment will be useful as a starting point to someone who hasn't really looked into the issue before.
- bayindirh 4y agoHey, no worries. Of course it will be. Cheers!