• Tired and bored@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am using VsCodium and I can install extensions. It’s my default code editor and it has nothing less than my coworkers’ MS Visual Studio Code.

    Edit: just understood VsCodium uses a non-official marketplace for extensions, but for my needs I’ve always found everything

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      1 year ago

      The problems are that VSIX binaries can’t legally be redistributed and many of them aren’t even open source in the first place. Many won’t even work if you manually download them and add them to Codium. VS Code really doesn’t deserve to be viewed as open source in any way shape or form and folks need to embrace the Open VSX market place and avoid Microsoft’s like the plague.

      You’re lucky to have found all the extensions you need. That’s not the norm.

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          1 year ago

          Nobody views GitHub as open source. Folks do believe that VS Code is open source but because the extension store can’t be accessed by anything else (like an actual open source build of VS Code’s codebase) it’s an extremely dirty lie.