Comment by anonnon
21 days ago
This is the nudge I needed to stop using VSCodium completely. (No offense to its devs, mind you, who seem to much better have their act together.)
21 days ago
This is the nudge I needed to stop using VSCodium completely. (No offense to its devs, mind you, who seem to much better have their act together.)
Why?
VSCode is the most popular IDE right now, making it and its telemetry-free derivative (and their overlapping extension ecosystem) too juicy of a target for a supply chain attack. Over 75% of devs use VSCode, according to the SO survey. And there's also the potential of Codium itself being targeted, despite it currently having a small userbase by comparison, which could easily change as MSFT does to VSCode what it did to Windows. Also, I predict MSFT is going to make it progressively more difficult for the Codium devs to completely strip anti-privacy "features" from VSCode upstream.
Definitely all true!
If you don’t need it, I wouldn’t use it.
Thanks.