VSCodium
Binary releases of Visual Studio Code without Microsoft branding, telemetry and licensing
What is VSCodium?
This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's 
Code - OSS (vscode) 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.
Code - OSS (vscode) 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.
Recent user activities on VSCodium
- POX added VSCodium as alternative(s) to JetBrains Fleet
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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."
Reply written 8 months ago
They seem to update to catch pretty fast.
The user experience is not as good as in Visual Studio Code.
At first sight it looks the same but there are a lot of small features which do not work as well or do not work at all like the git extension, the chrome debugging, the remote debugging, the plugin suggestion and others.
I'm sure VSCodium developers do their best but they are still dependent of Microsoft so they will always be behind. A better alternative would be to directly use Visual Studio Code and manually disable telemetry or use something totally independent like Atom.
To those complaining about the limited functionality, know that VSCodium has its own FOSS alternative to the VSCode marketplace. It does this to comply with licensing. If you want to want to use VSCodium with the VSCode marketplace, try this script https://github.com/computercam/_unixconf_dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/fixvscode.sh
Visual Studio Code without the the microsoft telemetry.
great intregration with git. has a really great intellisense and clean design
many shortcuts and functions. highly customizable which is great for power-users and productive programmers. it has the best debug experience I've ever had with any IDE.
VSCodium is a great application for dev or notes.
In addition it is really flexible.
Same as visual studio code but without telemtry