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See also https://ghuntley.com/fracture https://ghuntley.com/fracture which details how the source code of Visual Studio is available but it’s fundamentally usel

See also https://ghuntley.com/fracture https://ghuntley.com/fracture which details how the source code of Visual Studio is available but it’s fundamentally useless by design as what people call Visual Studio (the product experience of the standard desktop edition) isn’t possible if you compile your own version. Yes, this includes VSCodium and the gap is getting worse as time goes on with the rollout of things such as GitHub copilot. Microsoft is locking down access to Top 6 LSP servers…

cxr 4y ago
Visual Studio is still closed source. VS Code is open source.
- ghuntley 4y ago
  But it really isn’t. Sure the lower primitives are opensource but the value of what people call VSCode // the language servers and the market place. Yeah, they aren’t and you can’t use it if you compile from source. I detail this in the link above.
  - cxr 4y ago
    I was referring to this part: > the source code of Visual Studio is available You're talking about Visual Studio Code, but you're calling it "Visual Studio" when you say it.
    - ghuntley 4y ago
      Ah my bad. I mean Visual Studio Code aka VSCode.