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It means that there is a truly OSS core VS Code (presumably what Gitlab and Code Sandbox uses), and proprietary extensions on top that Microsoft ship in their d
by madeofpalk 4y ago
It means that there is a truly OSS core VS Code (presumably what Gitlab and Code Sandbox uses), and proprietary extensions on top that Microsoft ship in their default (proprietary) distribution
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoBut given that the architecture is open source, there's nothing stopping the people behind e.g. Python from embracing the language server protocol and providing better tooling. Besides time / money, but that ties in to the known problem that open source is very difficult to monetize.
- matkoniecz 4y agoIf someone is a purist and wants to use it to avoid lock-in - it is available at https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
- andrew_ 4y agoI gave this an earnest try over the course of a few months. There were notable bugs in nearly all of the extensions I needed to use for work. It's known that Microsoft ships custom builds of the open source portion of VS Code, and there's certainly something missing from the open source core. I ended up going back to hobbled Atom while I wait for projects like Zed to mature.
- matkoniecz 4y agoAnd I am simply not using extensions. (Viable for me, may be not viable for others.)
- lozenge 4y agoThat doesn't make sense to me as there are next to no changes between VSCodium and VS Code. Unless these extensions were closed source Microsoft-authored?
- roblabla 4y ago> That doesn't make sense to me as there are next to no changes between VSCodium and VS Code. Honest question: How would we know that? Is it possible to somehow diff vscode's code with the open source repo? Is there an analysis available somewhere of the differences?