Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

JackbyDev, 8 months 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.

flashgnash, 8 months 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?

anoklola, 8 months ago

@flashgnash also edge is a great browser we just hate it because of the way they force you to use it

h_a_r_u_k_i, 8 months ago

I hate Google but they gave us Go, Kubernetes. I hate Amazon but they gave us AWS. I plainly hate those companies, but adore the brilliant engineers that work there.