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What are we actually talking about here? VS Code is open source, the existence of a de-microsofted alternative, that's actually just as capable (VS Codium) is
by wobfan 2y ago
What are we actually talking about here?
VS Code is open source, the existence of a de-microsofted alternative, that's actually just as capable (VS Codium) is just confirming this.
> there is no oxygen for an open source effort to reinvent that wheel.
Also, VS Code is just a great product. I mean, why is it a bad thing? It's not like Micrsoft is exerting as much negative control if at all on the whole ecosystem like Google did with Chrome. What I can see is that the dev's are keeping a good and healthy relationship to the users. While I see that this can change arbitrarily, given that it's Microsoft, right now you have (or at least I do) give them the benefit of the doubt.
- j0057 2y agoMany important plugins are only in the official marketplace, and it's not allowed to use this marketplace from open source builds. The practical effect is that open builds like VSCodium don't have access to things like the C# plugin, making them not useless, but much less viable than actual VS Code.
- neonsunset 2y agoC# has a fork of the official plugin which uses NetCodeDbg by Samsung. And the language server itself is a part of the SDK anyway. It works in VSCodium without any additional effort required.
- wobfan 2y agoI didn't know that it isn't allowed? VS Codium even endorses downloading the files from there and installing them in Codium. Is this against their TOS or something?
- kykeonaut 2y agoIt is against their TOS :)