Comment by DanielHB
7 hours ago
I have been using VSCodium (chromium-like version of VSCode) with this extension:
https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh
I run the editor (and its extensions), my projects and any agent harnesses from inside a container and use that extension to get an editor.
This is mostly to protect my credentials and data from malicious extensions/dependencies/rogue-agents, bu it also lets me quickly port my dev environment to any machine (I use linux at home and macos at work). Just install podman, install VSCodium, add the SSH extension, build image, add my utility shellscripts (to quickly get in and out of the container in a shell) and done.
Apparently Microsoft keep some VSCode APIs proprietary so only its own extensions can use it (allegedly for security reasons), which is why this specific extension only works in VSCodium. I wonder if it is vulnerable to the same things the article points out.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824802
I used VSCodium before and found it to be a massive waste of time for no benefit. A significant number of extensions either aren't in OpenVSIX (or whatever it's called), or don't work for some reason. Just disable telemetry in VSCode and you're good.
Happy Ungoogled Chromium user though
Yeah, but to be honest on my current project the only extension that I needed, but wasn't available was the Typescript 8 support (the typescript with golang-based language-server) which should land eventually in the built-in typescript support.
not to tell you that it's better or worse but you might like helium if you are using ungoogled chromium
What's the difference? As far as I can tell, Helium is just rebranded Ungoogled Chromium with pre-installed extensions or something.