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Re:Microsoft discloses plans to turn parts of VS Code C# ext... by ghuntley on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @09:48PM (#31761701)
ecosystem defaults was: open, like ruby, golang or rust

ecosystem defaults now: closed, proprietary to ensure the programming language is only useful if you are a paying customer of Visual Studio.

See the problem? More at https://isdotnetopen.com/

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Re:Microsoft discloses plans to turn parts of VS Code C# ext... by vips7L on Thursday June 16, 2022 @08:53AM (#31765484)
> is only useful if you are a paying customer of Visual Studio

I don’t see how that’s true since it’s going into VS Code, the free product.

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