NPM Is Joining GitHub

Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by sneak on Monday March 16, 2020 @02:38PM (#22595874)

VS Code is also spyware; I am not sure that this argument furthers your intended point.

The fact that it is open source and popular is not sufficient on its own. It had to be forked (vscodium) to show basic respect for the user’s privacy and system resources.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by Hawxy on Monday March 16, 2020 @09:33PM (#22600537)

> VS Code is also spyware

This is such an extreme & pretentious viewpoint. Microsoft knowing that I have VS Code installed & getting a report when it crashes is not in mine, or really any normal developer's threat landscape.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by snypox on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:48AM (#22602101)

Don’t forget you’re on HN.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by chrisoverzero on Monday March 16, 2020 @06:35PM (#22598875)

VSCodium say they’re not a fork.

> This is not a fork. This is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft's `vscode` repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration.

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by allover on Monday March 16, 2020 @02:48PM (#22596020)

It's true insofar as VS Code is widely loved by web developers.

So it "furthers my intended point".

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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by charrondev on Monday March 16, 2020 @06:33PM (#22598861)

No fork is required. If you build before from the source in its main repo, there is no tracking included by default.

It’s builds released by Microsoft that have all of their specific stuff added in.

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