You might be misunderstanding, you said in your comment: > I believe Microsoft builds VS Code releases by building VS Codium, and then adding in their own bran

You might be misunderstanding, you said in your comment: > I believe Microsoft builds VS Code releases by building VS Codium, and then adding in their own branded features This part isn't true, MS and VSCodium both build their releases upon https://github.com/microsoft/vscode https://github.com/microsoft/vscode, but MS does not build VSCodium at all.