VSCodium
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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.
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- mewthree reviewed VSCodium
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...
- does not think WYSIWYG Support is a important feature of VSCodium
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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."
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/
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.
My code editor of choice! It's as powerful as Visual Studio Code (all the features and extensions, etc.), but it has its own logo, and most importantly, it doesn't collect any telemetry data!