I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Your daily reminder that VSCode is shit not because of telemetry (take your time foil hat off for one second and hear me out and I say that jokingly with love) but because the extension marketplace is not allowed to be accessed by third party tools (INCLUDING CODIUM) and even then many of the extensions are proprietary, closed source. You're not even allowed to distribute compiled VSIX files. It's disgusting. Reading about the troubles gitpod faced that led to the (now) Eclipse Marketplace (idk the name, but it's for VS Code plugins, don't be tricked, it's just owned by Eclipse foundation) is disheartening.

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      1 year ago

      Oh shit really? I knew their debugger was locked down didn't know extensions were

      Codium seems to have all the same extensions though, has someone else just setup their own marketplace?

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, there is an open marketplace. It's the one Codium uses by default. The problem is there's no way for the controllers to just mirror everything because of the licenses. Also some of the extensions don't work with Codium even if you download manually from the website because of bullshit like tweaking the name or whatever.