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Visual Studio Code (and ecosystem) isn’t opensource and closed by design not because of copilot. It’s to enable a wider plan involving GitHub codespaces aka Vi

Visual Studio Code (and ecosystem) isn’t opensource and closed by design not because of copilot. It’s to enable a wider plan involving GitHub codespaces aka Visual Studio Online (do a nslookup of the cname on a codespaces workspace btw) - see https://ghuntley.com/fracture https://ghuntley.com/fracture Indeed a by product of the design ensures that Copilot does not work on oss (vscode mit) which other cloud development vendors which compete that codespaces uses but the problem is much wider. For example dotnet tooling, pylance, etc. Most of the popular programming languages where microsoft is the primary maintainer of lsp/editor tooling by design is not open.

predictabl3 3y ago
> that Copilot does not work on oss (vscode mit) Wow, shame on me for not being as anti-corporate as my soul wants to be. I was really hoping they'd keep a clean Chromium model, even maybe with some closed extensions, but that is pretty awful. Like, bad enough I might actually start casting side-eye on VSCode (rather than Codium) use. That just smells like they want all coding+copiloting done in an environment where they can watch every keystroke, "borrowing" your code from the second it leaves your fingers, through the editor, through GitHub, through Actions and Deployment. If it weren't for Copilot, I'm not sure I'd care but. Ew. Thanks for continuing to talk about it, and sorry if you have hard feelings about the whole thing :(.
tmpz22 3y ago
Yeah the last 5 years of Microsoft ain't gonna be the next 10 years. Some folks are in for a rude awakening.