Comment by thiht
20 hours ago
These are extensions. No one is preventing OSS communities from developing their own remote dev, Python, and C++ extensions. The VSCode extension API allows it. There are actually some efforts being made to do it.
20 hours ago
These are extensions. No one is preventing OSS communities from developing their own remote dev, Python, and C++ extensions. The VSCode extension API allows it. There are actually some efforts being made to do it.
You’re describing the E in EEE
Ah, but coming hot on their heels are the embracions and extingushions!
You're moving the goalposts! I am responding to
> I honestly don't remember when they tried to snare someone to use proprietary extensions to something open.
But ... they literally did that here? I don't think it's malicious in this case. In fact I think they're giving away genuinely useful tools here with no obvious downsides to their use.
But I do think it qualifies.
Bit like the example of Martin Luther King being a criminal.
I think it's not about the extensions but the market place.
You can't use the MS extensions with VS Codium, you are forced to use VS Code.