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These are extensions. No one is preventing OSS communities from developing their own remote dev, Python, and C++ extensions. The VSCode extension API allows it.
by thiht 1y ago
These are extensions. No one is preventing OSS communities from developing their own remote dev, Python, and C++ extensions. The VSCode extension API allows it. There are actually some efforts being made to do it.
- yencabulator 1y agoYou're moving the goalposts! I am responding to > I honestly don't remember when they tried to snare someone to use proprietary extensions to something open.
- fc417fc802 1y agoBut ... they literally did that here? I don't think it's malicious in this case. In fact I think they're giving away genuinely useful tools here with no obvious downsides to their use. But I do think it qualifies. Bit like the example of Martin Luther King being a criminal.
- sdenton4 1y agoAh, but coming hot on their heels are the embracions and extingushions!
- nothrabannosir 1y agoYou’re describing the E in EEE
- croes 1y agoI think it's not about the extensions but the market place. You can't use the MS extensions with VS Codium, you are forced to use VS Code.