VSCodium
This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Electron
- Snapcraft
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
- Clean design
- Distraction-free
Features
- No Tracking
- Prevent telemetry
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Autocompletion
- Dark Mode
Git integration- Syntax Highlighting
- MIT License
- Ad-free
- Minimap
- Git Support
- Built-in terminal emulation
- Support for MarkDown
- Support for Javascript
- Code navigation
- Color coding
- Code Formatting
- Live Preview
- Automatic Indentation
- Code Completion
- C++
- File Versioning
- Support for Bootstrap
- Objective-c
- Spell Checking
- Command line interface
- WYSIWYG Support
- Full-Text Search
- Batch Editing
- Support for scripting
- Cloud Sync
- WYSIWYG HTML Editor
- Portable
Support for LaTeX- Support for 64 bit
- Embedded debugger
- PHP IDE
- Multiple Cursors
- Specific for 64-Bit
Tags
- ASP.NET
- Html5
- Privacy Protection
- css3
- Markdown Editor
- Javascript
- Node.js
- CSS / Stylesheets
- plugins-management
- programming
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What is VSCodium?
This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary 
Visual Studio Code.
Microsoft's downloads of Visual Studio Code are licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contain telemetry/tracking. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer:
When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license.
When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. Therefore, you generate a "clean" build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license This repo exists so that you don't have to download+build from source. The build scripts in this repo clone Microsoft's vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is enabled by a build flag which we do not pass.
VSCodium information
Developed by
Baptiste AugrainLicensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.8Alternatives
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- English
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Development, Office & Productivity, OS & Utilities, Security & PrivacyGitHub repository
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- 1,495 Forks
- 132 Open Issues
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Comments and Reviews
It's Visual Studio Code, but even more FOSSy! It also features some other slight differences:
[Edited by Szubxero, June 24]
It was a fair review, not a blind one, except you forgot to mention that VSCodium has broken the extensions marketplace part. That's all I care about in Visual Studio Code. I personally don't care about being "more FOSSy". What does that even mean in practice?
However, the main philosophy behind the existence of VSCodium is to propagate the malicious belief that Visual Studio Code's telemetry toggle switch is broken. This is a big red line for me. My philosophy is "do no evil."
Only Microsoft products can use and connect to Microsoft’s Extension Marketplace. The terms of use for the Marketplace prevent any non-Visual Studio products from accessing it. So VSCodium can't legally access the marketplace, it's a proprietary feature! In the long run it's better to work on establishing an independent and free marketplace for VS Code extensions like https://open-vsx.org/
I wonder if anybody really assessed the "telemetry free" claim. A simple port monitor like TcpView will show you that VSCodium connects stably to Github (a Microsoft site) and exchanges some kind of data, periodically, till it is open. That happens even disabling updates, announcements, and all of the extensions. I asked for a clarification to developers, without any answer. Free from telemetry? It's your call.
Very powerful but at the end of the day it's just clunky and the interface has way too much going on and adding extensions is honestly kind of a pain... (Microsoft and the devs behind forking VSCODE to VSCodium Could learn a thing or two from sublime text's extension integration and management)
Still it is indeed open source so it's pretty good for that matter..... To me it was the best open source code editor for Windows until I discovered CudaText - Which is better in every way shape and form, And not even close to being process heavy.
Privacy-Focused, lightweight and fast, with a limited Extension Marketplace. I've been using it for about a year now (Linux) and it has worked as expected most of the time.
It's VScode, but entirely 100% FOSS without any bloat or telemetry from Microsoft. It's perfect, and so nice! The only downside is that it uses Electron instead of something like Tauri.
IDK much about security issues but it seems like to me that it's not OK when you install this snap with "--classic" flag. I hope someone who knows this prove me wrong.
I really do like VSCode, but like VSCodium much more as it cuts out all telemetry. It is worth noting that there is a separate marketplace for VSCodium extensions. The usual VScode marketplace will not recognise this app. It's not a big deal for me.
Coming from Sublime Text, I do find VSCodium to be a bit busier in the UI. But it's FOSS and regularly updated.