VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code

Hey folks, Geoff here from Gitpod. Very pleased to see there continues to be strong interest in open (and FOSS) software development tooling. VSCodium uses the OpenVSX registry (which Gitpod folks created) because the VS Market place is proprietary and can only be connected to from official Visual Studio branded products. If you can't find an extension when using VSCodium then please send a pull-request to this repository https://github.com/open-vsx/publish-extensions with the identifier and that will help grow…

Maybe I'm a bit paranoid, but I find it harder to trust the binaries generated by such a project than the ones provided by the Big Techs (even though they are the biggest stalkers). I'm afraid that such projects, with much less man power and skin in the game, are more vulnerable to supply chain attacks or a hostile takeover if a dev sells the project. I'm not very knowledgeable in this area. Would someone contribute here some resources on…

This has been my editor for a long while. I can highly recommend it; it is VSCode but without the bullshit. It should be noted that VSCodium uses a different marketplace for extensions. This third party marketplace does not have (obviously) proprietary Microsoft extensions. Some extensions can still be installed by downloading the .vsix from the official marketplace, but other extensions actively block being installed on "non-official" VSCode. For Python I recommend basedpyright as an alternative to…

On Linux (Arch) how does this differ from https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/code/ ?