Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace
by qbane on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @06:32AM
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If one can "force uninstall" for safety, then it implies that automatic upgrading an extension with the user's consent is unsafe at the first place.
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Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace
by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @08:04AM
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It is, but that's the reality of today - auto-updates, "evergreen" releases. This was popularised by Chrome, and IMO fixed a LOT of headaches and allowed for much faster and more agile release cycles - the reality before was that a company like Microsoft would have to provide support for older versions of their software for X years and deal with the fallout of security issues with remaining older versions. (Web) developers had to be careful about adopting newer features because X% of their user base would still be on older versions of the runtime, leading to the invention of transpilers and the start of what is still a very complicated system in web front-end world.