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VA Code a free and open source product so I hardly think a panic is justified. For new or non-regular users, a hosted version is quite convenient. It reads loc
by dtagames 1y ago
VA Code a free and open source product so I hardly think a panic is justified.
For new or non-regular users, a hosted version is quite convenient. It reads local files and GitHub repos, just like the version you install, which is also just a web application, wrapped in Electron.
- greatgib 1y agoWhat is VA? VS you mean? Everyone knows this theory that vscode is open source except that it isn't really. The base is open source, but essential things are not like access to extensions, some most important language servers,... As far as I see, "VS Code for the web" is not open source no? Free it is somehow, for the moment, if you are working with GitHub repos, in the limit of free accounts of GitHub, accepting the conditions like constant telemetry and Microsoft having access to all your code data, ...
- dtagames 1y agoYes, I missed a typo too late to fix it. You could host VS Code somewhere yourself if you wanted to. The most rational use case is to install it locally, like most people do. They offer a hosted version because they can and it looks cool to send people a link to a running IDE.