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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.

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.