Re:Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech
by poincaredisk on Sunday October 27, 2024 @05:43AM
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Citation needed? I use vscodium explicitly for its license, but my friends and coworkers who use vscode don't use collaboration features and copilot anyway and could use vscodium as well if they cared. What sells vscode is that it's a nice extensible cross platform IDE filling a niche between "just use vim" and "full blown jetbrains IDE for every language that you use".
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Re:Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech
by Cupprum on Sunday October 27, 2024 @07:06AM
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Do you by any chance work with Python? If i recall correctly, the default Python library for VSCode doesnt work out of the box in VSCodium, as its pulled from MS servers, which VSCodium does not allow. I think you need to enable this connectivity on your own. So my understanding is that by “crippling” the maket, its more convenient for people to just use VSCode.
Re:Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech
by disgruntledphd2 on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:20PM
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I mean, I used pyright (the free one) in emacs for years, and it was fine. Pip installable et al, maybe this all happens automagically in VSCode?
Re:Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech
by eesmith on Sunday October 27, 2024 @07:10AM
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https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ - "Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture"
> Whilst Visual Studio Code is "open-source" (as per the OSD) the value-add which transforms the editor into anything of value ("what people actually refer to when they talk about using VSCode") is far from open and full of intentionally designed minefields that often makes using Visual Studio Code in any other way than what Microsoft desires legally risky...