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Why did Microsoft Build VSCode? Turns out, GitHub Copilot. (codeium.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Microsoft is breaking its open and extension-friendly ethos with VSCode in order to cripple GitHub Copilot competitors with restricted APIs.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

long ago i shifted to vscodium, a packaged version of only the open-source base of vscode that provides most but not all of the available extensions. for two reasons: so that i didn't leak telemetry to m$, and so that i wouldn't get used to features that aren't open source. it's available in a lot of package managers, mac/windows as well as linux

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ahh I should have figured there's a "-ium" version of VSCode too. I'll have to check it out and see if the Julia extension works with it