Oh just a minute, you mean the product that Microsoft gave you (as they crushed as much open source competition as they could) wasn't really free?!
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The cool thing is Microsoft will give you ads in software you paid for as well!
How did they crush open source competition?
They killed Atom.
And good thing too, for from the ashes of Atom rose Zed – and in case you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s awesome. Think VS code but 10000x faster.
Just had a look. They're pushing AI pretty hard.
There's also Pulsar
I wouldn’t say they’re pushing it. They’re adding AI features that, like it or not, are proving to be handy additions to a developer’s toolkit. But it’s not their core USP, and you can ignore it if you don’t care about it. In terms of speed I’ve found only Helix to match it.
Zed’s ‘live collaboration’ features, by contrast – yeah, no clue who the target user is there, since I grant everyone on my team to use whatever tools they feel most productive with.
Yes but without VSCode wouldnt Atom be like vscode: having many unfree extensions?
The usual way.
Any details?
Just saying the catch phrase "Embrace, extend, extinguish" doesn't give any context or information whatsoever.
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Oh, I didn't know they mentioned vscode specifically.
In that case I'm sorry for disturbing.
for anyone else, Vscodium is vs code with all the Microsoft parts stripped out.
I use vscodium, and let me point out a few things before anyone thinks its a drop in replacement :
- the store/marketplace is not the same. Due to licencing vscodium is not allowed to access the microsoft vscode marketplace. However, you can change the url to use the official marketplace
- some extensions ( mostly a few microsoft extensions ) are not allowed to run in vscodium. Think of stuff like the .net debugger
- vscode has build in addons like the .net debugger, razor support, some c++ syntaxing etc, that vscodium does not have and can not have if you want the official addons
Overall i love vscodium, but for work i cant use it sadly.
Now hobby work is all vscodium
You can modify your product.json to use Microsoft's extension gallery. There are also extensions you can install to do this for and prepackaged binaries that do as well
Yes, you can do that, and i mentioned it too. Hell, i always have vscodium set up like that haha.
However even then you can come across extensions you are not allowed to be install. Ive come across that error a few times, mostly with microsoft extensions
It’s early, but I have high hopes for Lapce.
I was never a fan of Electron, but I am admittedly very old school.
Including the add on store, so be prepared for a damn hazzle to get any add ons and keeping them up to date.
The MS store is replaced by OpenVSX by the Eclipse Foundation. Some addons are not there. E.g. M$ closed source addons e.g. for remote development over ssh or their python and C# extensions.
