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Re:GitHub Codespaces by nicoburns on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:03PM (#23094965)
> The local version of VSCode will disappear overnight

That's the beauty of open source though. VSCode is prominent enough that someone will fork it and maintain it if Microsoft pulls the plug.

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Re:GitHub Codespaces by donmcronald on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:32PM (#23095287)
My fear is that an officially supported marketplace for selling extensions would be appealing enough that important extensions would put all future development effort into their marketplace versions and cease development of local versions.
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